Re: Reserve Demobilization System Built Around Re

[jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter)]

>Reuse is always associated with programming.  Reuse is reducing the
>amount of programming needed by using an existing piece of software
>to provide some of the functionality of the system you are building.

I like this definition.

>Word processing software is usually not reusable software.
>There is no way for another application to invoke its functions.

The Rational text editor can, believe it or not, be invoked programmatically
because all of its operations are exported out of a package called Editor,
so you can do stuff like:

    Editor.Cursor.Up (Lines => 4);
    Editor.Char.Insert_String ("This is done by magic.");
    etc.

Comes in handy sometimes, and is great for automating demos.
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