Re: gEDA-user: discussion on what busses *mean*

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 15, 2010, at 5:00 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:

> 
>> But in Paul's approach, every connection is a bus.
> 
> To use your own words: But synthesis is not the only geda flow!
> 
> With physical electronics, individual electrical connections are
> fundamental, and groupings are synthetic.  They're totally distinct
> concepts, unlike in synthesis.

I completely disagree. An individual connection is simply a group of one.

Kernighan and Pike's "Program design in the UNIX environment" is one of the greatest papers on software design ever written. Their first example of a well designed program is "cat", whose most common use is displaying a single file, a special case of concatenation. There is no need for a special program to cover that special case: the general program works fine.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
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