cwash into software

Back in April, there was an interesting article quoting Ron Jeffries et al on InfoQ looking at code reuse from an agile perspective. The conversation steered toward explaining reuse as a concern that is very expensive, looking at it from a top-down, “enterprise”-wide lens.

But is code reuse a black and white issue? My contention is there are varying degrees of reuse that are often neglected on a microscale within an even moderately-sized project. If the code you produce isn’t going to be reused, is it even going to be looked at? These are similar problems with similar solutions. (continue reading…)