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From: J C Lawrence <claw@varesearch.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 16:02:00 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Thu, 06 May 1999 20:42:39 +0200
Emil Eifrem <emil@prophecy.lu> wrote:
> Lately I've beginning to doubt this modular approach. It sounds
> very good in concept and on an abstract level, but when you get
> down to some real code it's partly really messy and
> troublesome.
This is of course why you need to throw your first attempt away --
you learn all the painful lessons so you can do it right the next
time.
> That's probably a result of flawed design decisions on my end,
> though, it's the first time I build a system of this
> magnitude.
Modular systems are typically easy to implement as long as the
divisions between modules are clean and functionally useful. If
they're not you're in for a nightmare attempting to wedge a design
onto a solution it doesn't really fit.
Now you see why I've thrown out and started again from scratch so
many times, and am about to again. Learning curves.
> I've been toying with the idea of writing down my overall design
> decisions and post it to the list for comments but never gotten
> around to it.
Go on, be a devil.
> You'd all probably laugh anyway. ;)
Well, of course, but we'll also explain the joke.
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