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From: drw@culdev1.UUCP (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: software ICs vs. libraries
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Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 10:38:39 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 23 10:38:39 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 15:50:17 EST
Organization: Cullinet Software, Westwood, MA, USA
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Another feature of "software ICs" comes from the fact that they are
part of an object-oriented system.  One can actually write, say, a
linked list manager that will work on objects of *any* type.  In most
languages, this is impossible to do in a library routine.

I suspect that I could write considerably less code if I could write
in one statement all the trivial, but extremely stereotyped, bits of
code.  After all, what fraction of your lines of code are
loop-and-search, and other completely standard stuff?

Dale