Sunday 16 September 2012

On Reuse



As long as I have been in IT - since I coded my first subroutine library 35 years ago - the debate on reuse has been ongoing. At times, it has seemed like a ‘Holy Grail’ for software delivery and like the Holy Grail it also seems to give rise to endless opportunities to debate whether it is exists or not, if it is good or bad, or even what it actually is.

Now entering into another, I thought it worth putting down some observations [1].