Someone needs to take jwz aside...

Abigail abigail at abigail.be
Wed Apr 20 18:01:21 BST 2011


On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 06:43:48PM +0200, Lars Thegler wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Dave Hodgkinson <davehodg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/04/a-badge-for-the-software-industrys-failures/
> >
> > Or does he have a point?
> 
> No, code reuse is a *good* thing.

Sometimes.

But I've seen so much code that's needlessly convulated just so it can
just some code (or worse, that the code can be reused), that I take the
dogma "code reuse" with more salt than the yearly recommended dosis.



Abigail


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