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From: adamsf@cs.rpi.edu (Frank Adams)
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Subject: Re: Abstraction vs. optimization?
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Date: 14 Jun 89 09:49:05 GMT
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In article <51097@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Bruce Weide <weide@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>If there is to be a "reusable components" cottage industry, probably
>many components will only be available as specifications plus runnable
>code in object form.

I suspect that software components in object form will never be successful.
There is too much need to diddle with things, too little which can be used
as is.  And inheritance with run-time binding is too often an inadequate
method of diddling.

Frank Adams   adamsf@cs.rpi.edu