On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 03:57:10PM -0800, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
>> With Palm OS 5, remember that the decision to hide internals is a
>> technical one rather than some new philosophy.
>
> Can you go into a bit more depth of the term "hide"? What exactly
> are you "hiding", and what is the technical hurdle that necessitated closing
> it off from public view?

Good God. "Hide" here doesn't mean closing things off from public view.
It means hiding implementation behind defined interfaces, so that it's
hidden from code even though it may well still be in public view. Go
find a programming book and look up "abstraction".

> Actually, having an open, well-documented OS will extend it more

Hiding internals from applications is a step *towards* an open,
well-documented OS.

John "there is no conspiracy :-)"

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