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

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From: Lennart Augustsson
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1987 01:52

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In article <4673@utah-cs.UUCP> shebs@cs.utah.edu.UUCP (Stanley Shebs) writes:

> ...
>Potential recoders should note that this program [recoding of a 15000 line
>C program] would be at least an order
>of magnitude larger than any other functional program that has been written
>(so far as I know), so the experience gained would be quite valuable and
>possibly publishable.  It would also provide researchers with a sample
>program that is considerably more realistic than "fibonacci" or "sieve".
> ...

There are some quite big (by functional standards) functional programs around.
One example of this is a compiler for LML (Lazy ML) that we have been working
on here at Chalmers for quite a while.  The compiler is written in LML (of
course) and it is about 6000 lines long.  As you said, writing such a large
functional program is a valuable experience.
I think it would be quite fun (and feasible) to rewrite something like hack
in a functional language.  I just wish I had the time.

-- 

	Lennart Augustsson
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Subject: Re: Software Reuse  --  do we really know what it is ?
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Date: Tue, 7-Jul-87 21:52:35 EDT
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Keywords: declarative functional logic programming modularity

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