From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 7 Dec 92 18:30:26 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!net news.upenn.edu!prijat!guinness.cs.uofs.edu!beidler@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Jack B eidler) Subject: Re: Request for reuse tool info Message-ID: <11312@prijat.cs.uofs.edu> List-Id: In article , srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes: |> >I am investigating tools supporting software reuse. I'm interested in both |> >.... |> This question reveals another way how the DoD is ignoring the free market s. |> In this case, the DoD through STARS and other efforts, is wasting a lot of |> money developing reuse retrieval tools. However, there are commercial |> solutions available now, that don't require any government funding. |> My favorite approach, is to use any of the commercial relational database s I agree, if we are going to reuse, why not reuse what's already out there, like Aharonian suggests, a commercial database product. Another possibility would be one of the commercially available library information systems. Are the types of queries that software developers would make really any different than the types of queries one would make in browsing through a library system looking for a book or article? No. Just how much further would STARS be if the time was spent building the information base needed for software developers and place it in an existing library system with all its cross referencing, keyword, and general access capabilities? -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | John (Jack) Beidler | | Prof. of Computer Science Internet: BEIDLER@JAGUAR.UOFS.ED | | University of Scranton beidler@guinness.cs.uofs.edu| | Scranton, PA 18510 Bitnet : BEIDLER@SCRANTON | | | | Phone: (717) 941-7446 FAX: (717) 941-4250 | +------------------------------------------------------------------+