This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Python Buzz by Dmitry Dvoinikov. Original Post: Just in: reusability as a central problem Feed Title: Things That Require Further Thinking Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ThingsThatRequireFurtherThinking Feed Description: Once your species has evolved language, and you have learned language, [...] and you have something to say, [...] it doesn't take much time, energy and effort to say it. The hard part of course is having something interesting to say. -- Geoffrey Miller Latest Python Buzz Posts Latest Python Buzz Posts by Dmitry Dvoinikov Latest Posts From Things That Require Further Thinking

Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we build on top of the work of others rather than redoing so much of it in a trivially different way.

-- R. W. Hamming, 1969