From: jcallen@Encore.COM (Jerry Callen)
Subject: Re: Reserve Demobilization System Built Around Reused Ada Code
Date: 4 Jun 91 14:59:29 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15075@encore.Encore.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 0D010010.gk4ndi@brain.UUCP
> [In several articles, Jim Showalter and Chuck Shotton debate whether
> a recent Ada success should be called "enhancement and maintenance"
> or "reuse."]
I don't suppose anyone associated with the project is reading this
news group, are they? Don't be shy! :-)
I find it quite easy to believe that some 800K SLOC of Ada could be
"reused" as is; I have a LOT of packages that I reuse all the time,
and I can believe that a large system might be, say, 80% existing
utilities (database management, windowing package, etc.) and 20% glue.
On the other hand, I can also picture "enhancing" a large portion of not
necessarily directly reusable code, making many changes in many places.
Ada makes THAT relatively easy, too.
SO - unless someone on the project can comment, let's admit that we're
all guessing, shall we? :-)
-- Jerry Callen
jcallen@encore.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1991-06-04 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1991-05-30 18:30 Reserve Demobilization System Built Around Reused Ada Code Chuck Shotton
1991-06-01 4:23 ` Jim Showalter
1991-06-04 14:59 ` Jerry Callen [this message]
1991-06-05 2:29 ` Hoysch
1991-06-05 13:57 ` John Goodenough
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1991-06-05 18:57 John Goodenough
1991-06-11 6:27 ` Jim Showalter
1991-06-14 17:32 ` Piercarlo Grandi
1991-06-15 0:22 ` Jim Showalter
1991-06-15 23:20 ` Orville R. Weyrich
1991-06-17 17:49 ` brian r hanson x6062
1991-06-18 17:21 ` Bob Munck
1991-05-28 11:02 Chuck Shotton
1991-05-30 0:47 ` Jim Showalter
1991-05-27 16:27 Karl A. Nyberg
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