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From: dc@sci.UUCP (D. C. Sessions)
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Subject: Re: Reserve Demobilization System Built Around Re
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Date: 17 Jun 91 13:45:38 GMT
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  Another $0.02:

  It only *FEELS* like reuse if I thought I might have to do it 
  myself.  Some of us old-timers still appreciate that compilers 
  represent a kind of reuse because we once expected to do that sort 
  of thing by hand.  (compilers? Hell, assemblers!)

  Do you think of a 6-32 screw as reuse?  Only if you've spent some of 
  your life far from hardware stores.  Same with software.  Some of us 
  have managed to preserve a sense of wonder that the assembler works; 
  others take math libraries, DBMSs, and such for granted.  Not 
  surprisingly, the latter group doesn't count these things as reuse.
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