It depends what you mean by 'glue' - I think if you're going to quantify
something you should define it.
Do you think accessors in Java and Smalltalk code qualify as 'glue'? I
suppose object-relational mapping declarations would as well, likely any
code traversing an object to obtain data for
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Steve Wart st...@wart.ca wrote:
It depends what you mean by 'glue' - I think if you're going to quantify
something you should define it.
Glue code is reasonably well defined in the community.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glue_code
A related term sometimes
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 09:25:19PM +0200, John Nilsson wrote:
This discussion reminds me of
http://www.ageofsignificance.org/
It's a philosophical analysis of what computation means and how, or if, it
can be separated from the machine implementing it. The author argues that
it cannot.
If I
The wikipedia definition is circular, but I agree that people know it when
they see it :)
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.
Steve
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:52 AM, David Barbour dmbarb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Steve Wart st...@wart.ca wrote:
It depends what you
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Steve Wart st...@wart.ca wrote:
The wikipedia definition is circular, but I agree that people know it when
they see it :)
I don't believe it's circular. It does assume you already know the meaning
of glue and code independently.
Maybe not. If there is enough information about different modules'
capabilities, suitability for solving various problems and requirements,
such that the required glue can be generated or configured automatically
at run time. Then what is left is the input to such a generator or
configurator. At
Sounds like you want stone soup
programminghttp://awelonblue.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/stone-soup-programming/.
:D
In retrospect, I've been disappointed with most techniques that involve
providing information about module capabilities to some external
configurator (e.g. linkers as constraint
