On the Differences Between
Very Large Scale Reuse
and
Large Scale Reuse

Don Batory
Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas
Austin, Texas 78712

dsb@cs.utexas.edu

Very large scale software reuse (VLSR) is an every-day occurrence whereas large scale software reuse (LSR) remains an elusive and unrealized goal. We offer an explanation for this apparent contradiction in this paper.

Keywords: Genesis, realms, software building-blocks.