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JAX London 2010: Stefan Tilkov on Thoughts on the Generic vs. Specific Tradeoff

Thoughts on the Generic vs. Specific Tradeoff
Whether it's DSLs vs. general purpose programming languages, or internal DSLs vs. external DSLs, or UML vs. MOF, or a specific XML format vs. XHTML, or tunnelling web service calls through HTTP POST or GET, the same abstract problem occurs again and again, forcing the architect to decide whether to go with a generic solution or invent a specific one. In this talk, Stefan will illustrate how this problem manifests itself in many different scenarios, outline the pros and cons of both the extreme as well as in-the-middle solutions, and derive a guideline on how to deal with it.

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PODCAST THOUGHTS ON THE GENERIC VS. SPECIFIC TRADEOFF

This session took part at the JAX London 2010. You can view the other 12 podcasts here.

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