Comment on The computer programming language known as "open source code"parentComments−bodhi15yIsn't the difference generally that a library is used by client code, whereas client code sits 'inside' (for varying levels of inside) a framework? That's my rule-of-thumb anyway.−jedbrown15yThere's certainly a continuum, almost any decent library can be extended by user code.−waterside8115yThat's how I used to remember things. You call a library, a framework calls you (is how I kept things straight when I started out in CS)
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Isn't the difference generally that a library is used by client code, whereas client code sits 'inside' (for varying levels of inside) a framework? That's my rule-of-thumb anyway.
There's certainly a continuum, almost any decent library can be extended by user code.
That's how I used to remember things. You call a library, a framework calls you (is how I kept things straight when I started out in CS)