Re: Design Decisions and Hurd/L4 work (was: Re: Improving Hurd)

[Jan Atle Ramsli]

"Thomas Bushnell, BSG" wrote:
> 
> Jan Atle Ramsli <trollet@skynet.be> writes:
> 
> > The problem is that someone just popped out and said "The ADT is not
> > longer relevant, it died 10 years ago".
> 
> That's not what I said.  You are getting really annoying; it's as if
> you *want* to misunderstand.
> 
> > That is: I have been told that some problems can not be solved with the
> > concept of an ADT.
> > I need to know: What are they. It takes only one example to convince me.
> 
> Geez, an elementary programming text might help.
> 
> Two classic examples:
> 
> First failure mode: ADT specifications do not include information on
> time complexity or expected uses.  Consider for example an X 11
> "window" as an ADT.  Now, what would you say if a spreadsheet design
> started off with "ok, create 1,000,000 windows, one for each cell, and
> we can just use X to manage display and positioning".  Whoops!

Also spoke the Great Ayatollah of Operating Systems.
I just figured out that I can not verify this.
I only have a 19" screen.

The issue has been resolved: Abstract Class has replaced ADT.
I thought of it when looking for a 'class invariant' that I could set to
999.999.-

Atle