Software Reuse -- do we really know what it is ?

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From: David Gudeman
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1987 19:22

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In article <2637@crcge1.UUCP> adams@crcge1.UUCP (Drew Adams) writes:

   ...  Hughes finds that the importance of functional languages is
   that they allow program modularisation in ways which imperative
   languages cannot.  To quote again:

	   ... functional languages provide two new, very important
	   kinds of glue [(higher order functions and lazy
	   interpretation)]....  This is the key to functional
	   programming's power - it allows greatly improved
	   modularisation...

Any language with functions can have higher order functions, and any
language with the concept of `arguments' can have lazy evaluation of
them.  So how can these features be called advantages of functional
programming?

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