On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:28 PM, John Ehrman <[email protected]> wrote: > Kirk Wolf noted: > >> Cheating is always encouraged :-), but I think that the point was that > neither programmer had such a routine "in his toolbox". The C programmer > will find something that is easily reused, the assembler guy probably > won't. > > I thought the CBT tape actively encouraged "cheating".
I like the qualification of "cheating" for borrowing others' code. Which IMHO is not the same as software reuse. Software reuse software is hard work. The implementation must be done generic enough that it can be used in all places, and changes to that common code need be handled with great care. Copying (and modifying) borrowed code is less likely to improve quality because you may be dragging in stuff that you did not need but still am impacted by bugs in it. Rob
