Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!garry
From: garry@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Garry Wiegand as guest)
Newsgroups: comp.sw.components
Subject: Re: Scope of new newsgroup: comp.sw.components
Message-ID: <7885@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 6 May 89 00:45:09 GMT
Reply-To: garry@larch.cadif.cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell Engineering && Ithaca Software
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In a recent article wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu (Bill Wolfe) wrote:
> $ This newsgroup will facilitate discussions about software components
> $ and their design, implementation, and utilization...

What, pray tell, is a "software component"? (A library "tool"? A subroutine?
A flowchart? An algorithm? A programmer?) I have not encountered this
term of computer jargon before...

garry wiegand   (garry@larch.cadif.cornell.edu - my "Reply-To", not my "From"!)