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From: cwk@ORCRIST.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU (Charles Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Reusability considered harmful??(!!)
Summary: Deja Vu
Keywords: Reusability, Division of Labor
Message-ID: <11875@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 10 Feb 91 04:36:26 GMT
References: <6108@stpstn.UUCP> <4842@cui.unige.ch> <318@smds.UUCP>
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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In article <318@smds.UUCP>, sw@smds.UUCP (Stephen E. Witham) writes:
> But someday soon we'll have
> "component software" (as distinct from software components) by analogy to
> component stereo--software the user plugs together.  And maybe "software
> composition" or "software compositing."

This was exactly the vision of McIlroy when he introduced the notion of
software reuse at the NATO Software Engineering Conference in 1968 (which
was also the birthplace of Software Engineering).  Meanwhile, 23 years
later...