Comments on: Code re-use as technical debt http://therealadam.com/archive/2009/08/01/code-re-use-as-technical-debt/ Polymath practicing programming, probably procrastinating Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:22:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Bill http://therealadam.com/archive/2009/08/01/code-re-use-as-technical-debt/comment-page-1/#comment-780 Bill Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:26:06 +0000 http://therealadam.com/?p=720#comment-780 The debt metaphor is apt in this case. I don't think it's always the case, but it does seem to bite often enough to be considered a pattern. I think that component assembly: identifying candidate components, selecting from among the candidates, making the reuse-vs-build tradeoffs, tracking subsequent updates (to reused components)—all that stuff is a discipline unto itself. It's a discipline that doesn't get much explicit attention. But it should. The debt metaphor is apt in this case. I don’t think it’s always the case, but it does seem to bite often enough to be considered a pattern.

I think that component assembly: identifying candidate components, selecting from among the candidates, making the reuse-vs-build tradeoffs, tracking subsequent updates (to reused components)—all that stuff is a discipline unto itself. It’s a discipline that doesn’t get much explicit attention. But it should.

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