"Aaron Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, sorry to bother you, but I was wondering if you could tell me if you > designed SQlite using a Structured or Object-Oriented methodology please as > I am designing an interface to SQLite and my supervisor said if I knew what > methodology was used for designing SQLite this would be a good justification > for my choosing a methodology for designing the interface. >
I have spent 20 minutes trying to think of a reasonable answer to your question and have come up with nothing. The best answer I have is this: Your question is based on multiple false premises and thus has no answer. You assume that SQLite was designed using either a structure or an object-oriented procedure. (Methodology is a trendy word to use in that context, but when it is it is misused. "Design method" or "design procedure" is correct. "Design methodology" means the study of various design methods - not the design method itself.) This is false. I do not design use rigidly defined design methods found in books. Book-defined design methods generally lead to bloated designs that rarely work. You assume that the design method used to build a component has some bearing on the design method used to build a user interface to that component. This is false. Either your instructor is wrong or your are misquoting him. You should design your interface using whatever design method you are most comfortable with. Or (better) just design your interface using creativity and good sense and don't worry so much about rigidly defined design methods. -- D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
