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Date: 3 Dec 92 17:30:19 GMT
From: mcsun!uknet!yorkohm!minster!mjl-b@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Re: Request for reuse tool info
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In article <ByMu6L.4LJ@cs.uiuc.edu> johnson@cs.uiuc.edu (Ralph Johnson) writes:
>In my opinion, the need for library tools is grossly overstated.  The
>hard part is not the library tools, it is the library.  The fact that
>everybody wants library tools is a symptom of the computer science
>disease of trying to cure every problem with a new tool.

I think that the hard part is the taxonomy of software. If you can get the
right words to describe your components, you've half solved the problem. The
rest is "just" implementation.

>Ralph Johnson -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mat

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