Owen wrote:
Architectural studies look at the system from a 50,000 foot view, so
that the student can understand how the whole system works.
Implementation studies look at how a practitioner would, on the job,
build part of a system.
If in fact it is possible for a student to understand how a system works
in complete ignorance of the semantics of its subsystems, then there's
no real distinction I can see between understanding a part of a system
or understanding the architecture of the whole thing. It is scale
free. Only if the interfaces and interactions between parts are more
complex or require special expertise domain knowledge do I start to find
this distinction plausible.
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