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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Reusability considered harmful??(!!)
Keywords: Reusability, Division of Labor
Message-ID: <27A70D03.3638@tct.uucp>
Date: 30 Jan 91 18:14:26 GMT
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Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL
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"Reusability" is perfectly adequate as a description of existing code
that can be put to a new use.

The main problem I've observed with the term is the assumption some
people make that if code even requires a little tweak for reuse then
it isn't really "reusable."  Reuse isn't free.  Sometimes its costs
are up front, sometimes they aren't, and no one has a crystal ball.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
 "I want to mention that my opinions whether real or not are MY opinions."
             -- the inevitable William "Billy" Steinmetz