RE: Tables, Wrappers and MLs, oh my!

["Fred Kulack" <kulack@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/22/2001 at 04:15:18 PM, "Joe Pluta " <joepluta@plutabrothers.com>
wrote:
Abstraction for abstraction's sake is not always the way to go.  What I try
to do is think about what I want my application code to look like.  What
I'd LIKE to do is the following:
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I agree completely Joe.

I was proposing OO solutions here as a discussion point only
and trying to show how each additional requirement
ITERATIVELY changes the design.

Perhaps we lost the fact that XML/HTML example is too simple
and is a waste of this level of abstraction, but the concepts about
what we're talking about are good to understand anyway.

And the arm waving is kind of fun too... 8-)



"The stuff we call "software" is not like anything that human society
  is used to thinking about. Software is something like a machine, and
  something like mathematics, and something like language, and
  something like thought, and art, and information...
  but software is not in fact any of those other things."
Bruce Sterling - The Hacker Crackdown

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