PE>> How come neither event-driven, nor client-server, is taught as a
PE>> philosophy that should be adhered to at the Uni I go to?
PE>> Has a whole discipline sprung up without anybody bothering to document
PE>> it? It sure seems that way!
RS> Yeah, its a problem which pervades a fast moving immature technological
RS> field. For example with Windows about all there was for a long time was
RS> the SDK and Petzolds book. Thats life in an immature field. It can take
RS> a decade before you start to see the academics pick up on it. Compilers
RS> and OSs happened like that too, took a long time before you saw them
RS> adequately covered by the academics, long after the industry had been
RS> doing it.
Well it's certainly important enough to go into "Everything there is
to know about computers", and there's still 4 pages left to be written
in the 10 page document. Do you want to update it? Also, any authorative
references too. BFN.
Paul
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