begin quoting Darren New as of Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 05:48:36PM -0700: [snip] > Loose coupling: "Tell someone to go do something. Check with them later > to see if they finished it."
That's not at ALL what I think of when I think of loose coupling. > Parallelism: "Tell several people to go do work. Tell them to come back > when they're done." Better, but it's not the telling that's key. I don't think these concepts are as obvious as you think they are. > I think if you started classes with Dijkstra's dining philosophers and > the P() and S() operators (or whatever they're initialed) before you > talked about variables and structures and arrays and loops, you're going > to have one brutally confused class. Well, yes. -- Brutally confused. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
