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From: Hadrien Grasland <hadrien.grasland@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Task interface and entries with aliased parameters
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 11:06:53 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2015-10-21T11:06:53-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <04528ca6-559f-47fb-817f-5e651651fe62@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <n08g8e$ngr$1@dont-email.me>

> 
> "IMHO, Interfaces are worthless." -- Randy Brukardt

I would not agree with that, they are a nice way to express that multiple objects with different internals can be manipulated in the same way.

UNIX files, for example, are an interface. You have no idea what they represent, but you know that you can most likely sequentially stream bytes to and from them.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-21 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-21  8:54 Task interface and entries with aliased parameters Hadrien Grasland
2015-10-21 15:52 ` AdaMagica
2015-10-21 17:01 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-10-21 18:06   ` Hadrien Grasland [this message]
2015-10-21 19:21   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-10-21 19:45     ` Hadrien Grasland
2015-10-21 20:19       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-10-21 19:46     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-10-21 19:59       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-10-28 17:48     ` Randy Brukardt
2015-10-28 19:34       ` Bob Duff
2015-10-28 22:23         ` Randy Brukardt
2015-10-28 19:47       ` Paul Rubin
2015-10-28 22:24         ` Randy Brukardt
2015-10-28 21:13       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-10-30 19:48       ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
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