I'm old enough to remember COM, besides the word component, what's the similarity?
The downvotes are unfortunate, since this is a reasonable sentiment, here's an article I read a while ago that presented this point in a more nuanced fashion:
COM and a Win32 WndProc function aren't very similar :)
(And yes, that's a very good post.)
Ahh I thought they were the same -- admittedly I've never worked deeply with windows program (and do not plan to at any point in time), so I couldn't tell the difference
There is… just no similarity whatsoever.
Quintessential "tech is so ageist!" comment. Well done.