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I love it when outsiders to a community (like journalists) get things like this wrong, because it makes me rethink my mental categories. We have absorbed a cul
by russellallen 16y ago
I love it when outsiders to a community (like journalists) get things like this wrong, because it makes me rethink my mental categories.
We have absorbed a culturally agreed set of differences between a computer language, a platform, a framework, a library, an OS... and we're comfortable with licencing being coextensive with these units without getting confused, for example.
- asnyder 16y agoI'm not so sure about the library vs framework agreement. Many packages that would historically be labeled libaries, now call themselves a framework, making it even harder for the real frameworks to stand out among the clutter.
- bodhi 16y agoIsn't the difference generally that a library is used by client code, whereas client code sits 'inside' (for varying levels of inside) a framework? That's my rule-of-thumb anyway.
- jedbrown 16y agoThere's certainly a continuum, almost any decent library can be extended by user code.
- waterside81 16y agoThat's how I used to remember things. You call a library, a framework calls you (is how I kept things straight when I started out in CS)