Re: Reserve Demobilization System Built Around Re

[rharwood@east.pima.edu]

In article <PCG.91Jun14183250@aberdb.aber.ac.uk>, pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo
Grandi) writes:

> Usually, I suspect, reuse is meant to be applied to the narrow case
> where one does custom sw development, which is no longer the case in
> most commercial installation; nearly everybody nowadays is using DBMSes
> and enjoying the benefits of not reimplementing from scratch data
> management programs.

OK... maybe we can LIGHTLY (read as: "without flame") discuss and subsequently
define what reuse really IS (or ought to be!).

My Personal Opinion:  Calling a DBMS or GUI or math routine is NOT reuse. 
Libraries of complex mathematical subroutines have been available to FORTRAN
programmers since ENIAC, I suppose.  Perhaps "reuse" is truly short-hand for
"source code reuse"?  The term has mostly come to represent the ability to
incorporate software written for or funded by "some other" project with little
or no modification; perhaps some customization (specifically, the instantiation
of an Ada GENERIC unit for the target elements).  A major rewrite would be
excluded frp

Ray
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