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See "Code Reuse Considered Harmful": http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/1999-March/0...

Rereading it, I think it was mostly right, but partly wrong. The path to massive programming productivity isn't to rebuild everything from zero; it's to reuse only the right things.



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