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by wtracy 2216 days ago
The word "framework" by itself provides no indication of how specialized the tool is, or what problem(s) it aims to solve.

The above description indicates that it is a very general-purpose framework (handling things as disparate as game engines and web servers) and that it aims to enable code reuse, not just eliminate boilerplate code.

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Eh, no, that description doesn't do that, a better description is what is above it because it actually mentions what it does and provides. The part quoted in the message i replied is largely implied by the word "framework". Of course it isn't a bad thing to be explicit (especially since some people may think that framework is just another word for library), however it isn't any clear about what the framework does.

For example think of MFC: you know what that framework is all about (Windows GUI applications), yet the description could easily fit with MFC (and indeed all of the above have been implemented on top of it).