From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 109fba,e2e7624a3542400a X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,e2e7624a3542400a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,e2e7624a3542400a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,e2e7624a3542400a X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 1089ad,e2e7624a3542400a X-Google-Attributes: gid1089ad,public From: baynes@ukpsshp1.serigate.philips.nl (Stephen Baynes) Subject: Re: Software reuse Date: 1996/08/19 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 175163839 sender: news@ukpsshp1.serigate.philips.nl (account for localnews) references: <320EF9AB.42877E5C@sh.bel.alcatel.be> <3210AA4B.2578@tus.ssi1.com> <32133648.4CBA@la.ccfo.carel.fi> followup-to: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.vhdl organization: Philips Semiconductors, Southampton, UK newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.vhdl Date: 1996-08-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Bob Stout (bobstout@neosoft.com) wrote: : Ari Lukumies wrote: : Some people, though, can't really begin to think in terms of an overall : design until they've deconstructed down to the component level. These people : are library programmers. As you say, education, experience, etc. are If they start at or wait untill they reach the low level components before looking for reuse then they are not much good. They should be aiming to reuse whole subsystems, and in the extream to reuse the whole program. -- Stephen Baynes baynes@ukpsshp1.serigate.philips.nl Philips Semiconductors Ltd Southampton My views are my own. United Kingdom Are you using ISO8859-1? Do you see � as copyright, � as division and � as 1/2?