Re: Reserve Demobilization System Built Around Re

[orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)]

In article <1991Jun15.010746.12768@netcom.COM> jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter) writes:
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>When one makes use of a DMBS or a GUI or a set of math routines, is this
>not PRECISELY what you just described? Okay, I will concede one point: people
>do seem to think that reuse spans projects. Fine--doesn't a DBMS span projects?
>Over multiple project lifetimes, mechanisms that keep coming up (that "haven't
>we built this already?" feeling of deja vu) eventually get turned into highly
>reusable componentry--such as a DBMS, a GUI, or a set of math routines did at
>some point in the distant (or not so distant) past. The
>only possible distinction I can see between this and the rather loose notion
>people seem to have of reuse is that when one reuses a DBMS/GUI/math routine
>one is reusing some software component that has become common currency. Perhaps
>people think of reuse as being the repeated use of some kind of software that
>has yet to become common currency? In that case, the only clear distinction
>is one of TIME.

And the goal of software reuse then becomes synonymous with the goal of
recognizing a common pattern and formalizing it in the form of a new
abstraction which can be accepted as common currency?

I'll accept that as PART of what reuse is all about. See my previous post
for a list of other aspects of reuse.



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