At 18:04 +0100 18/4/07, Tim Thornton wrote:
At 17:41 +0100 18/4/07, Gordon Joly wrote:
At 15:48 +0100 18/4/07, Ian Forrester wrote:
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>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
So true.
Gordo
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