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From: Chris Gray <cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 10:26:21 -0700
Organization: Kanga.Nu
[Niklas Elmqvist:]
>This is also why I think some sort of bus-based message communication
>system is a Good Thing<tm>. It is a quite good abstraction in that it
>captures normal function calls, message queueing, RPC mechanisms and
>distributed proxy calls under one concept, while still not introducing too
>much inefficiency. It is much easier for a newbie developer to think of
>inter-module communication in terms of "here is a channel leading directly
>to this module you requested contact with" instead of having to learn the
>implementation details.
Call me dumb. Call me poor at abstraction. Please show me what you really
mean by this. Exactly *how* would it work? Go to as low a level as you
think I will need. Avoid assuming I'm good at C++, because I'm not.
Please?
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Chris Gray cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA