More on the need for multiple implementations

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1 total messages Started by S Muralidharan Tue, 07 Aug 1990 12:58

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Author: S Muralidharan
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 1990 12:58

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Before you dismiss the idea of multiple implementations as not so
important, let me point out just a couple of things.  Look at almost any
industry.  The idea of mutiple implementations is crucial
to the success of every industry - cosmetics to computers.  A software
components industry will be no exception.  The level of abstraction plays
an important role in judging how important this idea is.  Thinking at
bit level, probably the idea may seem even ridiculous.  If binary search
trees is your abstraction, for example, the idea seems less important
than if the abstraction is an almost constant function.

What we practice today need not necessarily be the right way to do
things.  What is only a theory today becomes a practice tomorrow!  Cheers,

Murali

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