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Best joke in the industry: "Code reuse!" Cracks me up every time. ;-) We fall for those words over and over again. But in reality, sadly, reuse almost never

• falcolas 12y ago
  Like c's 'libc', or C++ boost, or pythons 'requests', or... Lots of code reuse there that depends on generics.
  • vardump 12y ago
    Yes, libraries get used. That's their point. My point was, that very little of application code ever gets reused, although we somehow always think it will.
    • falcolas 12y ago
      And most people are asking for generics to write libraries which don't rely on unblocking interfaces. Even in the process of writing a single program, there are a number of times where you reuse certain bits of logic, and having generics makes it easier to refactor those into a single function, instead of duplicate code with multiple types (or overly generic types).
    • codygman 12y ago
      That's why you write or update libraries before writing an application, so it can be reused and your application specific code is minimized as much as possible.
• coldtea 12y ago
  >We fall for those words over and over again. But in reality, sadly, reuse almost never happens. Maybe one day, maybe even in the next project... I don't know in what industry you work for. In the IT industry code reuse very much happens every time. It might not be using code from your previous project to build the next one (through people do that ALL the TIME), that it's very much using common libs for thousands of projects. The kind of code reuse he talks about has been working perfectly fine for ages. E.g a generic sort, filter etc function, instead of having to handle the basics every time.