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Exercises in Programming Style
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Exercises in Programming Style

by Cristina Videira Lopes
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
5h 23m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Chapter 19

Plugins

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19.1 Constraints

  • The problem is decomposed using some form of abstraction (procedures, functions, objects, etc.).
  • All or some of those abstractions are physically encapsulated into their own, usually pre-compiled, packages. Main program and each of the packages are compiled independently. These packages are loaded dynamically by the main program, usually in the beginning (but not necessarily).
  • Main program uses functions/objects from the dynamically-loaded packages, without knowing which exact implementations will be used. New implementations can be used without having to adapt or recompile the main program.
  • Existence of ...
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ISBN: 9781482227376