Comments on: Inheritance of features http://www.morkeleb.com/2010/01/14/inheritance-of-features/ Simple design for advanced constructions Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:50:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Morten http://www.morkeleb.com/2010/01/14/inheritance-of-features/comment-page-1/#comment-402 Morten Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:52:50 +0000 http://www.morkeleb.com/?p=1020#comment-402 Well, no. Se Evolution is inheritance combined with the algorithm to prune out bad inheritance (natural selection). It is not equivelent to inheritance, evolution is a much bigger concept. You also have bad inheritance, in the human world there are cases right now where different kinds of cancer and even obecity are "blamed" on inheriting bad genes. The evolutionary process combines mutations, adapation and inheritance combined with elimination applied on all creatures, removing those branches whom have produces unfavourable results for our given environment. Also, I see synergy as something else. In the Track + Shuffle case on of the synnergi effects they recieve is that they can reach eachother's target audiences. Similar in the case of the RemoteX integration the two parties can reach new target audiences. But there is a difference here, where RemoteX inherits features the other system doesn't benefit in terms of features. They benefit from increased market reach only. Which isn't in any way bad, infact it is as they want it. So yes, there is the posibility that an inherited feature causes the other features to break down. This is not a sweet-spot for software integration... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheritance_%28object-oriented_programming%29 Given the last wikipedia entry it is easy to see that you can see each application as a "class" and features as inherited features. Difference here is that the features inherit in both directions. So yes, the fit is not exact either. But it fits better than Synergy. Well, no. Se Evolution is inheritance combined with the algorithm to prune out bad inheritance (natural selection). It is not equivelent to inheritance, evolution is a much bigger concept. You also have bad inheritance, in the human world there are cases right now where different kinds of cancer and even obecity are “blamed” on inheriting bad genes.

The evolutionary process combines mutations, adapation and inheritance combined with elimination applied on all creatures, removing those branches whom have produces unfavourable results for our given environment.

Also, I see synergy as something else. In the Track + Shuffle case on of the synnergi effects they recieve is that they can reach eachother’s target audiences.

Similar in the case of the RemoteX integration the two parties can reach new target audiences. But there is a difference here, where RemoteX inherits features the other system doesn’t benefit in terms of features. They benefit from increased market reach only. Which isn’t in any way bad, infact it is as they want it.

So yes, there is the posibility that an inherited feature causes the other features to break down. This is not a sweet-spot for software integration…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheritance_%28object-oriented_programming%29

Given the last wikipedia entry it is easy to see that you can see each application as a “class” and features as inherited features. Difference here is that the features inherit in both directions. So yes, the fit is not exact either. But it fits better than Synergy.

]]> By: anna forss http://www.morkeleb.com/2010/01/14/inheritance-of-features/comment-page-1/#comment-401 anna forss Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:32:02 +0000 http://www.morkeleb.com/?p=1020#comment-401 Hi! I also think that systems should benefit from eachother, but as an evolution interested person, I have problems with using the word inheritence. While thinking of this, I started thinking more in the line of synergy, the mutual benefits. But then I realized that there are also the parasitic applications, those which thrives on others. I was mostly thinking about integrated systems where one has poor quality, and this is spilled on to the integrated systems. In the worst case, the users blame the wrong system for the malfunctions. But is there a specific reason for using the word inheritance instead of synergy? Hi! I also think that systems should benefit from eachother, but as an evolution interested person, I have problems with using the word inheritence. While thinking of this, I started thinking more in the line of synergy, the mutual benefits.

But then I realized that there are also the parasitic applications, those which thrives on others. I was mostly thinking about integrated systems where one has poor quality, and this is spilled on to the integrated systems. In the worst case, the users blame the wrong system for the malfunctions.

But is there a specific reason for using the word inheritance instead of synergy?

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