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From: Bill Gooch <bill@iconcomp.com>
Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ?
Date: 1996/12/03
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Bill Gooch wrote:
> 
> Ahmed wrote:
> > ....
> > Some of these claims for instance
> > 1 - high reusability of objects and frameworks
> 
> While this may be claimed about specific frameworks, it is
> not IMO a valid generalization about OOT.  It is feasible
> and important to design and implement objects which achieve
> immediate *reuse*, general *reusability* is quite rare, and
> exceedingly difficult to achieve, IME....

Sorry, that last sentence should have read:

"Although it is feasible and important to design...."
 ^^^^^^^^