When configuring an application through object construction, the objective is to build the required objects at startup time. In effect, the configuration file defines the various initialization parameters for the objects that will be built.
We can often centralize much of this initial object construction in a single main() function. This will create the objects that do the real work of the application. We'll revisit and expand on these design issues in Chapter 18, Coping with the Command Line.
Let's now consider a simulation of Blackjack playing and betting strategies. When we run a simulation, we want to gather the performance of a particular combination of independent variables. These variables might ...
