Code Reuse (was Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue)

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.

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.