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Is "driver" the new name for "adapter pattern"?

• tomschlick 11y ago
  Adapter is probably a better word for it. Driver just tends to be common nomenclature.
  • seanp2k2 11y ago
    I guess I still just associate "driver" with an INF file that you right-click -> install to make some hardware work in Windows.
    • tomschlick 11y ago
      Same principal though. You have that driver to connect your internal code (Windows) to a third party service (Some shitty HP printer that you'll want to hit with a bat in 5 minutes).
• dragonwriter 11y ago
  > Is "driver" the new name for "adapter pattern"? Both "driver" and "adapter" as terms for instances of what has gotten labeled the "adapter pattern" were around before the architectural idea of design patterns was applied to software, so its not a new name for it.