Interesting history, but I think a more interesting article for me would be about what actually caused modern software repositories/registries to be introduced and take off. Because that is the point where software reuse went into hyperdrive.
Software registries and dependencies are often sneered at by some engineers as a source of bloat and poor quality code. But I think that having an overall negative attitude towards any software registry is a sign of a lack of perspective. Those registries have been the biggest improvement in software engineering ever.
And people that suggest otherwise don't know what software engineering is or it's history.
Software registries and dependencies are often sneered at by some engineers as a source of bloat and poor quality code. But I think that having an overall negative attitude towards any software registry is a sign of a lack of perspective. Those registries have been the biggest improvement in software engineering ever.
And people that suggest otherwise don't know what software engineering is or it's history.