Subj : Re: PROGRAMMING DESIGN
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Eric Sosman
Date : Wed Jan 19 2005 11:12 am



puzzlecracker wrote:
> can someone ballpark me through these basic questions:
> 1)Object-oriented design vs structural design?
> what are these: publisher and subscriber, reference counting?

    Ballpark: object-oriented design is like left field,
while structural design is like the parking lot.  A
publisher is like a peanut vendor working the stands,
while a subscriber is sort of like the pitcher and
the shortstop rolled into a single entity, but without
the gloves.  Reference counting happens at the turnstiles.
Clear?

    More seriously, puzzlecracker, I've seen your posts
on several of the newsgroups I frequent and suspect you
may be appearing on others I do not.  This is an effective
way to troll, but a particularly ineffective way to learn
something; Usenet is not a good medium for teaching.  If
you are trying to learn, your posts have elicited many
references that you should now study; come back when and
if you need particular points clarified, but don't expect
Usenet to teach you Swahili literature by a sort of electronic
correspondence course.  If you're trolling, on the other hand,
may all your E-mail addresses appear multiple times on the
lists of every spammer in Creation for all time to come.

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Eric.Sosman@sun.com

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