Re: Design document on "deep vs shallow APIs"...

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Peter Soetens wrote:

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> The point I actually wanted to make is that dividing functionality in small 
> pieces means _more_ work on many more places than working in (moderate) 
> monolithic blocks. 

You hit the nail: what Orocos is all about (at the design level) is to
find the "most appropriate" interfaces/monolithic blocks. And I am
quite confident that for most of the "traditional" robotics stuff, the
senior people in this community know reasonably well what "most
appropriate" means.

Herman

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