[LUNI] Speaking of frameworks...

[Martin Maney]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:35:54PM -0500, Larry Garfield wrote:
> a first-rate system.  It's actually sort of half app framework, half CMS, 

Which reminds me of a tangentially related remark I came across
recently:

  Neil Schemenauer made me see an interesting difference between
  frameworks and libraries. These are my words but it's really his
  idea:

  A framework is just an application with a lot of hooks; you can
  design a framework in an entirely ad-hoc fashion by starting with an
  app that does one thing and trying to generalize in various
  directions. You can stop at almost any moment and call it "a
  framework". But a good library requires much more -- there, you need
  to start with requirements, abstractions and attempt at a minimal API
  that addresses the maximal set of requirements. Frameworks have no
  requirement to be minimal in size while maximal in features.

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=152104

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