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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
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Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote:
>      So if you want to produce software cost-effectively, it follows
> that you *must* re-use existing code.

Yeah, every single character of my sources has surely been used somewhere
else, already.

PS: And once I no longer find a job in software development, I'll try to
get the job shovelling coal into furnaces of machines that produce the
hot air which is then going to be (re)used by others' talking.