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I'm not so sure about the library vs framework agreement. Many packages that would historically be labeled libaries, now call themselves a framework, making it even harder for the real frameworks to stand out among the clutter.



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)




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