I know I'm repeating myself - but Michael, you are absolutely one of the
best at taking complex technical concepts and finding everyday
anaologies/metaphors to explain their inner workings ....
many thanks ... kathy
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> From: Michael A. Stone[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 18, 1998 8:03 AM
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> > but this raises some
> > questions in my (admittedly very non-knowledgeable) pea-brain:
> >
> > How does this relate to Java? That is, I thought part of the
> > attractiveness of Java was the ability to break things up in to
> > "clumps" ... I've envisioned it as modular -- plug in the parts you
> > need, share the parts that are common.
>
>
> same general idea.. Java just has a more mature way of dealing with
> shared libraries in the source code.
>
> the older model of shared libraries, and libraries in general, is
> roughly like normal food preparation. you don't have to buy a new
> food processor every time you want to make dinner, you can spend the
> time and money to get a really good one, then re-use it over and over.
> you can even use it for several different recipes at more or less the
> same time. re-using the food processor is basically the same as
> putting code in a library for future reuse. organizing your food
> prep in a way that lets you do all your food processing at once, so
> the machine can be cleaned and put away to free up more counter space
> is what shared libraries are all about.
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