LOL.

I think the difference between "push a few words onto the stack and jump" and "send a bunch of packets out into the cold, harsh world and pray for a response" is simply too big for a common interface abstraction in many cases.

That's the right context but I think we need to eventually go to a higher level with some type of common bidrectional knowledge representation (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_representation_and_...) scheme that can underpin not only interfaces but all information system layers and representations.

Corba is an architecture astronauts wet Dream, to go any higher would result in negative vaccum.

Is this something written in the node.js language or the Rails language?

Even better, it's a language called beans. None of the kids today know about it so you'll have massive street cred.

I think you're being too subtle here.