Yes I agree, but software reuse isn't exactly new. The commenter was obviously referring to functional programming techniques, and I was trying to point out tha

Yes I agree, but software reuse isn't exactly new. The commenter was obviously referring to functional programming techniques, and I was trying to point out that other silver bullets have been spruiked in the past, only to fall short. And besides, someone still has to program these libraries - it isn't turtles all the way down.