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[Pogle]

An interface allows a transfer from one system to another.

With permission, a man inserts knob into woman's **** and there is a transfer of jiz.

(Protocol is how the man convinces the woman to let him do it.)

you make it sound SO romantic

[Grinder]

An interface allows a transfer from one system to another.

With permission, a man inserts knob into woman's **** and there is a transfer of jiz.

(Protocol is how the man convinces the woman to let him do it.)

[OwlHoot]

No, she's really a bird, honest, about 12 of the CUKers can testify as such, unless 'she' sent a girlfriend along to the xmas bash to keep up the facade.

Even Marina wouldn't go to those lengths

[OwlHoot]

Most of those written here are better than what I blubbered out at the time, which involved abstract classes and unimplemented methods

I bet it sounded really clever though, in an OO kind of way.

Sounds like it - probably just the answer they were looking for.

Don't worry Timberwolf, that contract is in the bag

[OrangeHopper]

I too found Feynman to be an inspirational character and have read his books. I would like to see the Horizon programme about him again.

An interface converts signals understood by one device into signals understood by a different device. See that TV remote .....

[realityhack]

I knew you weren't really a bird.

No, she's really a bird, honest, about 12 of the CUKers can testify as such, unless 'she' sent a girlfriend along to the xmas bash to keep up the facade.

[Pickle2]

Isn't that definition closer to a protocol?

I knew you weren't really a bird.

[realityhack]

Generally, an interface is the overlap where two or more systems affect each other or have links with each other.

In computing this is usually understood as either linkages between computers and other devices, or between computers and people.

More specifically, 'user interface' is commonly understood to be a program that provides a graphical display for the user, that allows the user to interact with the system, indirectly using other types of (mechanical) interfaces such as a 'mouse', or 'keyboard'.


It's so tempting to go into more detail, as I love human-computer-interaction theory and history. Carving through some good books on the topic now.

[cojak]

An interface is a contract stating what information systems may communicate with each other.

Isn't that definition closer to a protocol?

Just a thought....

[Mich the Tester]

Most of those written here are better than what I blubbered out at the time, which involved abstract classes and unimplemented methods

I bet it sounded really clever though, in an OO kind of way.

[TimberWolf]

This is the closest anyone got, so surely this one is the winner.

Most of those written here are better than what I blubbered out at the time, which involved abstract classes and unimplemented methods

[Platypus]

An interface is like a rosetta stone.

Lost me already

Next.

[suityou01]

An interface is a contract stating what information systems may communicate with each other.

This is the closest anyone got, so surely this one is the winner.

[Mich the Tester]

It's a thingummyjig that contract testers love because everytime one of the apps using an interface is modified you can charge the client a tulipload of money for regression testing it.

[gingerjedi]

The late great Richard Feynman once wrote that if something can't be explained in simple terms, it isn't understood. Well that's not quite what he said it, but that's the gist of it.

I've got a few of his books: 'Six Easy Pieces', 'Six Not-So-Easy Pieces' & 'Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!'

Nobel Prize-winning physicist, prankster, juggler, painter, bongo player, safecracker, solver of the Challenger disaster... what a guy.