Re: [Corelinux-public] reviving the naming discussion

[Frank V. C. <fr...@co...>]

Dan,

I agree with your posits, but not completely. The original idea for THIS
project was to exploit a specific platform, it's api, etc. to base an
advanced class library suite. the "What is not our intent" was to not
get mired into endless discussions on multi-platform churn.

Furthermore, on the OOD comment, by the time you are designing you have
wed the artifacts of architecture and analysis to the language of choice
as well as the platforms. In fact, the platforms are usually identified
in the high level architectures, the patterns in analysis, the language
and api in design.

Should I assume you meant Architecture and OOA?

Frank V. Castellucci

Dan Gohman wrote:

> I noticed there was a thread on this list a while ago discussing the
> name of this project. From reading the archives, it seems that there
> were misunderstandings.
>
> When I first discovered CoreLinux++, I was interested in a lot of
> the goals of the project, but I was quickly scared off by words like
> this:
>
>   What is not our intent?
>
>   Not to be written for portability, but for exploitation
>   of the Linux operating system enabling all that it has to offer
>   to optimize performance.
>
> This is a very surprising position, as it is contradictory to the
> goals stated on the rest of the site.
>
> One of the most prominant places this exists is in the name of the
> project, CoreLinux++. One reason some people don't like this
> name is that, contrary to what good OOD prinicples would
> recommend, it focuses on a specific implementation detail instead
> of on the interface and its functionality.
>
> I realize that the developers are focusing on and developing on
> a certain platform, and this is fine. The project should not,
> however, exclude the possibility of someone else implementing
> various parts of the library on other platforms.
>
> Dan
>
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