On 11/05/2011, at 10:25 PM, Paola Kathuria wrote:
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> 2) is a call to an existing function "re-use"?
>
> I've been the PHP developer for the-racehorse.com since 2006 and
> have produced over 30,000 lines of code. However, I'm calling
> some functions written earlier in new code? Is that counted
John Domingue wrote:
> I would like to convey to a non-computer scientist
> audience the significant effort that goes into software production in
> order to motivate software and component re-use. Otherwise a naive
> person may ask "why not just create the software you need on demand
> every time?"
Hi Frank, at the risk of going off topic for this list there are
several reasons for targeting non-specialists. Lindsay mentioned
funding agencies to which I would add below.
At the Open University we have a general background interest in this
as we do not have formal requirements for our c
>+ in all seriousness, who cares what naïve people think about anything?
Quite often they are controlling the purse strings. (though who has a purse
with strings these days? Surely it at least has a zip)
L.
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Hi, John.
John Domingue wrote:
John and Paola, thanks for your comments. I understand that there are
many variables. I would like to convey to a non-computer scientist
audience the significant effort that goes into software production in
order to motivate software and component re-use.
It's
Thanks a lot Richard and John for the extensive comments. These more
than satisfy my needs.
best
John
On 11 May 2011, at 04:20, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
On 10/05/2011, at 5:55 PM, John Domingue wrote:
John and Paola, thanks for your comments. I understand that there
are many variables. I
