Why Events? Flexibility.

Before we talk about events... Let's consider that there are many different approaches to developing software. In my opinion, the opposite ends of the spectrum end up being: Knowing how the whole system looks, feels, and operates before coding a single line. Having an idea of what the user wants and coding to make it happen. Although I'm generalizing a lot here, it's sort of like the battle between Waterfall and Agile. Okay, great. So what am I rambling on about here? Well, in the first case, you know all the ins and outs of the system. You can structure your system so that almost no matter how complex it is, you can ensure that method A is always run immediately after method B which is etc... The design is completely controlled. You have a spec for how all the…

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