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Re: Categories of Mismatches between Producer and Consumer?

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• Subject: Re: Categories of Mismatches between Producer and Consumer?
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:48:37 -0400
• Cc: "Costello,Roger L." <costello@m...>
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At 03:17 PM 7/11/2003 -0400, Roger L. Costello wrote:
>Terminology: a "producer" creates and outputs data; a "consumer" inputs
>and processes data.

This is a good list of possibilities, but I think you're focusing on 
mismatches as missing=problem, rather than mismatches as 
different=opportunity.

There are certainly lots of cases where I want more or less or different 
information than I'm given, but generally I expect that and even expect 
that it's a good thing.

It feels to me like you're developing a list of differences intending to 
abolish those differences as quickly as possible - though you don't say 
that explicitly - rather than accepting a world where negotiation at 
runtime is part of the system.

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