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From: scotth@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Scott Henninger)
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Subject: Re: Welcome to comp.sw.components!!!
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Date: 5 Sep 89 15:07:34 GMT
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|>From: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 )
|Date: 4 Sep 89 20:22:57 GMT
|
|>From scotth@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Scott Henninger):
|> [a component should provide a generally useful reuseable service]
|>
|> This is a narrow viewpoint of software reuse that does no justice to the
|> difficulty of constructing a good software reuse system.  
|
|   [...] "Domain Analysis -- From Art Form to
|   Engineering Discipline" (Proceedings of the Fifth International
|   Workshop on Software Specification and Design, May 19-20, 1989,
|   SEN V14 N3), which views reusers as learning systems and provides
|   a framework for assessing the progress of a reuse system.  [information
|   retrieval approaches]

This is on the right track.  I still argue that there is a significant tools
problem that must be solved before reuse becomes a sucessful software
engineering strategy.
-- Scott
   scotth@boulder.colorado.edu