Library vs Framework (was Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!)

[Simon Brunning]

On 8/15/05, Terry Hancock <hancock at anansispaceworks.com> wrote:
> On Monday 15 August 2005 09:54 am, Simon Brunning wrote:
> > If you call its code, it's a library. If it calls yours, it's a framework.
> 
> Such concision deserves applause. ;-)

Thank you. ;-)

As others have pointed out, this is a *drastic* simplification,
perhaps an oversimplification. You will inevitably need to call a
framework's code in addition to it calling yours, and a callback
argument or two won't turn a library into a framework. But I think it
captures the essence of the difference.

-- 
Cheers,
Simon B,
simon at brunningonline.net,
http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/