Re: What is the name of main structure in module based application

From	Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.programming
Subject	Re: What is the name of main structure in module based application
Date	2015-04-16 21:40 +0100
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On 16/04/15 19:33, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> On 2015-04-16, pavelkastornii@gmail.com <pavelkastornii@gmail.com> wrote:
>> There are a lot of programs that are module based. Such programs contains of
>> main structure (that manages modules and and let user work with them). For
>> exampale netbeans. My question what is the name of this main structure? By
>> other words there are modules and X? What is X?
>
> If the main structures in modules are just called "modules", then the main
> sturcture in the main module can be called "main module".
>
> Don't overthink it.

With you so far...

>
> Also, this way of organizing programs has something in common with the Facade
> pattern.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facade_pattern
>
> The main module has some function which use other modules, which are not unlike
> the "doSomething()" function in the diagram.
>
> Therefore, there is justificaiton in calling X the program's "facade".

Indeed. Nevertheless, not everybody will immediately recognise this term 
with its architecture-derived meaning, as the word has more recently 
acquired a somewhat pejorative connotation.

It might therefore be kinder to call the main module the "interface module".

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What is the name of main structure in module based application pavelkastornii@gmail.com - 2015-04-16 06:54 -0700
  Re: What is the name of main structure in module based application Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-04-16 18:33 +0000
    Re: What is the name of main structure in module based application Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-04-16 21:40 +0100

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