Those who don’t understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
— Henry Spencer
UNIX never experienced the DLL hell, with a brilliant simple trick in library naming convention. This idea was so good, that it later got also formulated more articulately as semantic versioning, and huge ecosystems such as npm are built around that.
Continue reading Semantic versioning is brilliant, but it won’t scaleAnecdotal observations tell me that NIH (not invented here) is for the most part dying[1]I couldn’t find any studies examining reuse statistics yet, so please send them if you know about some., and the general level of software reuse has increased significantly in the last ten years: Continue reading Choosing SW for reuse
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