in reply to Re: Hierarchy of code reuse by flexibility in thread Hierarchy of code reuse by flexibility
Hmm - I think I understand what you mean - and I mostly agree - but still I would say that I can make more changes in the code that is copied or generated then in libraries. Maybe I should have used some more precise words, maybe I should have called it 'modifiabillity' or something. But your reverse order really brings a more interesting question: if cut and paste and generation are really the worst of all techniques in this 'flexibility' measure - then why at all are they useful? Actually this hierarchy post was for me just a way of making sense of why and when to use code generation, cut and paste and libraries :)
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