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

Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 22:34:53 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver wrote:
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The discussion moved at a level as if nobody ever had said or written a
single word about reusability in the past 50 years.

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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
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