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Reasons for Disconnect

There are one or more reasons why these two groups seems not to communicate:

  1. ``Hacker/buildercw'' vs ``methods/software engineer'' culture, conferences, etc. This OO community works in small teams, with a largely oral culture.
  2. The reuse community's evidence for successes not crisp or compelling enough to motivate adoption by the OO community.
  3. The systematic reuse methods are not operational, mechnical or concrete enough for use/adoption by the more pragmatic OO community.
  4. OO practice (today) can in fact get by without much reuse community advice and knowledge, until larger scale problems, systems, libraries or teams need a more structured and approach.


Larry Latour
Wed Sep 20 16:13:18 EDT 1995