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

Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> writes:

On 2024-04-17, Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

The quoted blog is very vague about what the author thinks is being
ignored/forgotten.

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I don't know what specifically the author is referring to, but i have
heard retired professionals talk about technical advertising and
announcements of innovations, and having responses like "That's not
new!  We were doing that decades ago using _____!"  I've heard it so
frequently that it lends credibility, in my mind, to this article.

Selling the old as new is, well, an old tactic; I don’t think there’s
many conclusions to be drawn from it about the underlying balance
between learning and reinvention.

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