At 17:41 +0100 18/4/07, Gordon Joly wrote: > At 15:48 +0100 18/4/07, Ian Forrester wrote: > > > >------------- > > > >There's huge value in Frameworks. No matter what you may think about > >Rails, you can't call them all bad. :) > > > >Ian > > A framework is a higher level of abstraction. Most of the time, there > come a point where you want to poke around under the bonnet and fine > tune the engine....
Occasionally. But mostly, abstraction is what good engineering is all about. What more is an operating system than a higher level of abstraction from handling memory management and scheduling in your own code? What more is a CPU architecture than an abstraction from a set of transistors? Tim -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
