Like I said, "All I've seen are people's personal opinions on the
subject." I don't need to see more of them.

Please cite some authoritative source for the definition you propose.

-- Nick

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Steve Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Architecture is the structure and the vision, design are the details
> that matter and implementation is the bricks.
>
> To use the skeleton analogy
>
> Architecture is the outline, the need for the skeleton its parameters
> are requirements, the organs and their function and how they will be
> contained
>
> Design is the detail of where the organs are put, what materials to be
> used for the bones and how the eye should work
>
> Implementation is making it all flesh and refining the design so it
> actually works, but in the case of the human eye not actually getting
> rid of the massive cabling error in the design.
>
> So the architecture says the eye should receive light and colour and
> be able to discern them to a given accuracy
> The design says this means there needs to be receptors and these
> receptors need cabling to link to the brain and the cabling is linked
> together within the eye before being sent back. It describes a lens
> and a pupil and how they need to work
>
> The implementation builds the lens, builds the eye and takes the
> cabling out into the eye and then back again, not suggesting that a
> better approach would have been to take the cabling directly out the
> back and then onto the brain.
>
> That is why architecturally and implementation wise the human eye is
> perfect but its design is certainly flawed and showing no real
> evidence of intelligence ;)
>
> Steve

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