Re: Software reuse

[Bob Stout <bobstout@neosoft.com>]

Erik Jessen <Erik.Jessen@tus.ssi1.com> wrote:

>2) I think the only practical way to get reuse to happen is to have a >separate modellingg roup that either develops reusable blocks from the
>ground up, or takes blocks built by other groups, and "packages" them with
>documentation, etc. to make them reusable.  You need people to have simple
>goals.  For designers, it should be "make it fast, make it right".  For
>library people, it should be "make it reusable".

I heard a talk by Plauger once where he suggested there was a fundamental 
difference in mindset between the two types of programmers (this is true no 
matter what you call the two groups, applications vs. libraries, 
applications vs. systems, etc.) I tend to agree with this and believe it has 
a lot to do with an individual's most natural way of deconstructing a 
problem. The top-down people are apps programmers, the bottom-up people are 
library/systems programmers.