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Re: Code Reuse (was Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue)

From kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Code Reuse (was Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue)
Date 2024-04-21 15:29 +0000
Organization Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 22:34:53 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver wrote:
>
>> The discussion moved at a level as if nobody ever had said or written a
>> single word about reusability in the past 50 years.
>
>That’s because most of that 50 years was spent talking about it, not 
>actually doing it.

In the eighties, everybody was talking about code reuse and how it would
be the future and how all of our problems would go away.

Not we have people throwing together code that consists entirely of library
calls without actually understanding what those library calls are really doing.

>I think the problem is pretty much solved now. Open Source has become the 
>established way to develop most parts of the software stack (except 
>perhaps the most specialized bits at the top). And code reuse follows very 
>naturally from the ability to share, modify and redistribute other 
>people’s code.

There isn't enough modification and redistribution.  We need to add two
numbers, so why not just link in this giant math library?
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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The Continuous Amnesia Issue Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2024-04-15 22:34 +0000
  Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-04-16 10:51 +0200
    Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2024-04-16 21:34 +0100
      Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-18 01:43 +0000
        Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-04-18 11:03 +0200
  Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue Javier <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-04-16 22:25 +0000
    Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-18 01:42 +0000
      Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-04-18 11:03 +0200
        Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-18 22:17 +0000
          Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-04-19 10:42 +0200
            Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-19 09:28 +0000
              Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-04-19 22:22 +0200
            Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2024-04-20 21:15 +0000
              Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-04-21 12:24 +0200
          Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2024-04-19 17:21 +0000
            Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-19 22:02 +0000
            Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2024-04-19 22:05 -0700
              Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-20 22:42 +0000
                Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2024-04-20 16:50 -0700
                Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-21 02:13 +0000
  Code Reuse (was Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-17 03:21 +0000
    Re: Code Reuse (was Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue) Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-04-17 09:04 +0100
      Re: Code Reuse (was Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue) Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2024-04-17 15:19 +0000
        Re: Code Reuse (was Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue) Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-04-17 17:40 +0100
        Re: Code Reuse (was Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue) Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-05-11 21:42 -0300
          Re: Code Reuse (was Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-05-12 07:39 +0000
      Re: Code Reuse (was Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-17 22:04 +0000
    Re: Code Reuse (was Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue) kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2024-04-21 15:29 +0000
  Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue Eric Pozharski <apple.universe@posteo.net> - 2024-04-20 16:19 +0000
  Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue Eric Pozharski <apple.universe@posteo.net> - 2024-04-23 06:24 +0000

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