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Confessions of a used-program salesman: lessons learned

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SSR '95: Proceedings of the 1995 Symposium on Software reusability

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https://doi.org/10.1145/211782.211785

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Software reuse is the second oldest programming profession. Ever since the first program logic board was wired, people have been looking for ways of saving time and money by building upon other's efforts and not “not re-inventing any wheels.” This article summarizes the lessons I have learned as used-program salesman. Using this analogy, I will examine efforts made to institutionalize software reuse.

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SSR '95: Proceedings of the 1995 Symposium on Software reusability

August 1995

284 pages

ISBN:0897917391

DOI:10.1145/211782

Editors:
Mansur Samadzadeh
Oklahoma State Univ.
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Mansour Zand
Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 20, Issue SI
Aug. 1995
257 pages
ISSN:0163-5948
DOI:10.1145/223427
Editors:
Lori Clarke
Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Mansur Samadzadeh,
Mansor Zand
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