Chapter 13. GRAND DESIGNS
How to Produce Good Software Designs
A camel is a horse designed by committee.
Some code just makes you sigh.
I once had to write a device driver for an embedded product. The driver’s interface to the OS was quite complex. The interface to the hardware I was using was also complex. To keep myself sane, I split the code into two sections. The first was an internal library that accessed the hardware, performed some data buffering, and provided a simple API to access that buffered data. Then I wrote a second, distinct layer that implemented the finicky OS driver interface in terms of this internal library. The structure of the device driver looked like Figure 13-1.
Later, the manufacturer of the hardware sent ...
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