[cap-talk] Delegating Responsibility in Digital Systems: Horton's "Who Done It?"

[David Hopwood]

Jed Donnelley wrote:
> At 08:46 PM 5/16/2007, Charles Landau wrote:
>>At 3:45 PM -0700 5/16/07, Jed Donnelley wrote:
>>>Charles Landau wrote:
>>>
>>>>the premise of the example is that A  is
>>>>"unaware of Horton".
>>>
>>>Why is that the premise?
>>
>>Because the paper says so, page 2, column 2, lines 12-13.
> 
> Where it says:
> 
> The round objects in the figures, A, B, and C,
> are application-level objects unaware of Horton.
> 
> As with the other change, I believe this would better say:
> 
> The round objects in the figures, A, B, and C,
> are application-level objects that need not
> be aware of Horton.

"... that need not have been designed to be dependent on Horton."
or
"... that need not be dependent on Horton."

Objects don't think; people do.

-- 
David Hopwood <david.hopwood at industrial-designers.co.uk>