David HM Spector
writes:
“In a typically IW kind of story, the author asserts that code
reuse costs more than its worth. The telling line in the story is
“Building reusable object requires extenisive analysis and design”
ah-yup. The bottom line of the story exposes what should be a
well-known fact that most companies only pay lip service to the
idea of software disign and have yet to really get into software
patterns and information architecture and that most of the
[pointy-haired] managers don’t understand the underlying issues. No
wonder software budgets are out of control. “