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[hlep]"There are more than one way to skin a cat"

zerol

Soul of New Machine

发贴: 593

于 2003-12-12 00:33

What does the author imply by "There are more than one way to skin a cat"?

So to say AOP is not a good model for atomic transactions is about the same thing as saying OOP is not good for atomic transactions as AOP is just a different way to define and apply functionality. There are more than one way to skin a cat, and AOP just happens to be a fluid way to apply atomicity to your POJOs. We are/will be proving this with JBoss 4.

★☆　The Truth Lies Somewhere In The Middle　☆★　

作者	Re:[hlep]"There are more than one way to skin a cat" [Re:zerol]
dorrenchen 发贴: 298	于 2003-12-12 11:13 There are more than one way to skin a cat。拨猫的皮不止一种方法。 Well, basically he just saying there's more than one way to solve this problem. There's no hidden implications.

作者	Re:[hlep]"There are more than one way to skin a cat" [Re:zerol]
floater Java Jedi 总版主发贴: 3233	于 2003-12-13 00:11 There was a reason for using "skin a cat", but it gets lost along the way. All it means now is the above, use it and don't ask why. "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." - Martin Fowler, Refactoring - Improving the Design of Existing Code

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why 問題兒童总版主发贴: 4629	于 2003-12-13 00:23 >> use it and don't ask why no one ask me I just want to ask the name of a comic book: is it "99, 100, or 101 ways to skin a cat"? can't find it on Amazon.com ...

作者	Re:[hlep]"There are more than one way to skin a cat" [Re:zerol]
floater Java Jedi 总版主发贴: 3233	于 2003-12-13 00:31 hehe... sorry don't know that book. I think it's 16 ways. I talked with a fellow american about these, like breakbag, skin a cat, even his grandma doesn't know the reasons(he is mid 40's). "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." - Martin Fowler, Refactoring - Improving the Design of Existing Code

作者	Re:[hlep]"There are more than one way to skin a cat" [Re:zerol]
极品飞车发贴: 145	于 2003-12-14 23:28 看refactoring一書里的這幾話, "I've never tried to skin a cat. I'm told there are several ways to do it. I'm sure some are easier than others. So it is with algorithms. If you find a clearer way to do something, you should replace .the complicated way with the clearer way. "There are more than one way to skin a cat" 呵呵,意思清楚了吧

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Re:[hlep]"There are more than one way to skin a cat" [Re:zerol]

toString

发贴: 120

于 2003-12-18 20:47

看看这句典故的来历：
From Mike Reilly: “Anything interesting in the origin of There’s more than one way to skin a cat?”
To a lexicographer, all phrases are interesting, it’s just that some of them are more interesting than others ...
There are several versions of this saying, which suggests that there are always several ways to do something. Charles Kingsley used one old British form in Westward Ho! in 1855: “there are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream”. Other versions include “there are more ways of killing a dog than hanging him”, “there are more ways of killing a cat than by choking it with butter”, and “there are more ways of killing a dog than choking him with pudding”.
Mark Twain used your version in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court in 1889: “she was wise, subtle, and knew more than one way to skin a cat”, that is, more than one way to get what she wanted. An earlier appearance is in ’Way down East; or, Portraitures of Yankee Life by Seba Smith of about 1854: “This is a money digging world of ours; and, as it is said, ‘there are more ways than one to skin a cat,’ so are there more ways than one of digging for money”. From the way he writes, the author clearly knew this to be a well-known existing proverbial saying. In fact, it is first recorded in John Ray’s collection of English proverbs as far back as 1678.
Some writers have pointed to its use in the southern states of the US in reference to catfish, often abbreviated to cat, a fish that is indeed usually skinned in preparing it for eating. However, it looks very much from the multiple versions of the saying, their wide distribution and their age, that this is just a local application of the proverb.
The version more than one way to skin a cat seems to have nothing directly to do with the American English term to skin a cat, which is to perform a type of gymnastic exercise, involving passing the feet and legs between the arms while hanging by the hands from a horizontal bar. However, its name may have been suggested by the action of turning an animal’s skin inside out as part of the process of removing it from the body.

We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals.

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