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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: <27B2EADB.5840@tct.uucp>
Date: 8 Feb 91 18:15:55 GMT
References: <6108@stpstn.UUCP> <4842@cui.unige.ch> <318@smds.UUCP>
Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL
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According to sw@smds.UUCP (Stephen E. Witham):
>Someday soon we'll have "component software" (as distinct from software
>components) by analogy to component stereo ...

That's already here -- cf. UNIX tools.  The question is, will _all_
programming eventually be cookbook work?  Only when all problems are
cookbook, i.e. never.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
 "Most of my code is written by myself.  That is why so little gets done."
                 -- Herman "HLLs will never fly" Rubin