Meta programming is a style of software development where one is able to modify programs automatically, based on rules that have been previously defined in the system. For example, suppose that one wants to create a graphical interface based on simple specifications. The UI code may be written as a complicated C program, which makes…
In the previous post I talked about areas of software development where data is at least as important as behavior in the system design. Object oriented practitioners will contend that behavior is the most natural way of designing a system, and will give a number of examples where it works and the data-centric approach doesn’t….
Due to the importance of object oriented design in software engineering, most developers believe that objects are the holy grail of software systems. However, despite the usefulness of interfaces provided by objects, I believe that there is something even more basic that we should look for when designing a system. To see this, we may…