When we bring together the structured
definitions, the unstructured content, and the relationships, then we can create a semantic
understanding of the environment. With semantics, the agility of the technology community
will be taken to a new level unseen by any organization to date.
Core.Value.of.Reuse
Reuse, software reuse, and code reuse are three terms that are often misused and confused by
the general practitioner. Reuse is has been tossed around since 1994 where many organizations
jumped all over the reuse bandwagon without much success. Software reuse goals and
practices are not new, but full scale success has been hard to find. That being said, effective
reuse of knowledge, processes, and software has been proven to increase productivity and
quality of the Information Technology organization. McIlroy (1969) published one of the
earliest references to software reuse in 1969 at the New York NATO Conference on Software
Engineering. Early reuse efforts were primarily focused on reusing algorithms to ensure the
consistency of calculations. Companies with scientific and engineering computing needs
were early proponents of ???function reuse??? to ensure that a specific engineering calculation
across all of their systems computed the same value.
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