Very Loosely Coupled
Jay Cross,
Internet Time,
May 10, 2004
I think Jay Cross has the right idea here - "Real-world applications require flexibility. Those of us who are too impatient to await the arrival of nano-objects that conform to the shape of a contrainer can find a better model..." Now in the elipses Jay goes on to talk about intelligent agents. I am more sceptical about intelligent agents. If we needed intelligent letters to get words, or intelligent words to get sentences, we would never have developed language. If we needed intelligent paint and paper to get paintings, we would never have developed art. Real-world applications should not require this or that sort of connection mechanism. They should require things that don't need to be connected at all, but that work together naturally when placed in the same context.
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