[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud thread summary

[Jo Dillon <emily#thelonious,new.ox.ac.uk>]

Vadim Tkachenko (vt#freehold,crocodile.org) spake thusly:
> 
> Recently I with amusement realized that a lot of developers can't
> clearly think in terms of abstraction levels. One more thing which is
> directly related to the portability (and even more, to the good design)
> is abstraction levels and modules as abstractions.

  Very true :)
 
> Getting back on topic, sockets are easily abstracted as streams (and
> Java is a living example of that), threads as services, and there's one
> more very important abstraction (which I'm fighting with right now, but
> the subject had been beaten to death already): storage system.

  The wrapper I refer to is part of a more general collection of stream
classes covering files and memory buffers.

-- 
	Jo

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