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On Thu, 3 Jun 1993, David Tannen X8273 posted to All:

DX. At last year's TriAda there was a great reuse tutorial given by JP Rosen. 
  . He also wrote an article in CACM last year concerning Ada components.  His
  . basic premise is that we need to work more like a EE does.  When a EE is
  . designing a circuit, he will design for components that already exist
  . (adjusting his wonderful design to use as much off the shelf material as
  . possible).  Most programmers (myself included) tend to write the software
  . ourselves, because we don't trust other people's code.

There was also a presentation by Don Reifer in which he claimed that "the only
true reuse is black-box reuse..." (or so I paraphrase).  I agree with this


Regards, Mikey <michael.hagerty@nitelog.com>
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