<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>On Mar 21, 2011, at 13:47 , Piero Campanelli wrote:</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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Hi<br>
if you dare I published an article regarding VLC architecture:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.enjoythearchitecture.com/vlc-architecture.html">http://www.enjoythearchitecture.com/vlc-architecture.html</a><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm just a random small-time contributor, but since it seems no one else is replying... :)</div><div><br></div><div>Overall, I found the article a pretty nice and simple overview. Thanks for writing it.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>If you're looking for (hopefully constructive) critique, some small things:</div><div><br></div><div>- I'm not sure it's completely fair to call an object model coded in C "naïve". While the language does not offer native support for object-oriented programming, it's nevertheless possible to implement such a program in a fairly simple manner (as has been done here). Most of what C++ does on top of that can - from a certain viewpoint - be understood as syntactic sugar. But perhaps I'm not the best person to speak up on this :)</div><div><br></div><div>(There are advantages to having the code in pure C, which in this case may outweigh the slight syntactic advantage of an object-oriented language - if I recall, at least simpler compilers and shorter compile times. Also, no name mangling for exported symbols.)</div><div><br></div><div>- Some sentences in the article start with C tokens (such as vlm_t). This is unconventional, and a bit hard to read. Coming from a mathematical background, I agree that the standard convention makes writing hard sometimes, but special symbols, Greek letters, numbers and the like - which cannot be capitalized - should go into the middle of the sentence, and ideally the text should be worded such that each sentence begins with a regular capitalized English word. This makes the text slightly easier to read, because it's easier to spot at a glance where each sentence begins.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> -J</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>