I talked myself into a hole at work, and I need some good ideas to help me bette
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Question
I talked myself into a hole at work, and I need some good ideas to help me better describe why we should include both Dojo and Knockout in our new web project.
A little background: I do mostly computer-computer interactions when I program; updating states, reading/writing to the database -- Knockout is exactly where I want to be.
So I said, "I don't want to use Dojo"...meaning, "I don't want to do client side user experience/visual effects programming". I think it's a great to utilize other people's work, and I think re-inventing the wheel is a bad thing, generally. I just don't enjoy the process as much. But now its turned into an "all or nothing" decision.
Please help me come up with a good way to describe the difference between a library and a web framework, and not in this technical way. I need something simpler to get my point across.
Explanation / Answer
The Design Patterns and the OO movement guys had a definition along the lines of:
An application uses parts of a library, and provides the missing parts in a framework.
Django is a framework in which the user provides a data model, page templates, and URL routing information to have a working Web Application. PIL is a library for manipulating images in Python.