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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!halon.vggas.com!not-for-mail From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 21 Apr 1997 15:49:17 GMT Organization: VG Gas Analysis Systems Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5jg29t$vh3$10@halon.vggas.com> References: <slrn5kaf5t.11r.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> <3345FD90.4A3@kashmir.net> <5ipv9f$itd$1@halcyon.com> <5iqpqu$kfm$1@hecate.umd.edu> <5j73kd$pbe$1@halcyon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriel.vggas.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.8 (x86 32bit) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:20346 comp.os.linux.misc:171028 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39449 In article <5j73kd$pbe$1@halcyon.com>, tzs@halcyon.com says... >What I find kind of funny is that programmers will spend a lot of effort >designing objects or modules (or whatever the unit of encapsulation is >in the language they are using) so as to hide from other objects or modules >or whatever the need to understand how they work, but then when it is time >to think of their program as a whole, the whole idea of modules or objects >or whatever goes down the toilet, and they stick on some stupid interface >that expects the user to understand how the program works in order to use >it. If they would just keeping thinking in object oriented terms a little >bit longer, they'd realize that the user should only have to know *what* >the program does, not *how* it does it. Many programmers think of the programs they produce as tools whereas users often think of them computer as a whole and, at that, as something more like a television or an iron than a drill, swiss army knife, or welder. -- James Youngman VG Gas Analysis Systems The trouble with the rat-race Before sending advertising material, read is, even if you win, you're http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html still a rat.