The reusability challenge

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1996Publisher:Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)Journal:Computer, volume 29, pages 76-78 (issn: 0018-9162,

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Authors: Bertrand Meyer 0001;

doi: 10.1109/2.485856

The reusability challenge

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The traditional "reuse or redo" dilemma is unacceptable; we need to reuse what is applicable to our current need and redo the rest. This is where object technology helps. The argument we examine-that object technology promotes reusability-has been one of the central claims of OO proponents since the field's emergence in the mid-1980s. The paper considers the features that make object oriented ideas so special in the quest for reusable software.

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