Software reuse workshop at VCOE

Software reuse workshop at VCOE

[Gregory Aharonian]

    The Virginia Center of Excellence (VCOE) for Software Reuse and
Technology Transfer (big title - probably big trough) is sponsoring a
two day workshop on Software Reuse April 28 and 29th.  VCOE is funded
by DARPA, which for some reason didn't feel like supporting the DoD's
reuse efforts at ASSET and DSRO, and thought it would be a good idea to
spend more tax dollars creating another DoD reuse center.

    I hope marketing isn't one of the agenda items, since these highly
trained and competent staffers didn't even feel it necessary to announce
the workshop on comp.lang.ada, comp.software-eng, comp.object,
comp.sw-component, or comp.more-ways-to-waste-tax-dollars.  Hopefully
another agenda item won't be customer support, since there is nothing
more ridiculous for consumers than having to shop at three different
stores for efforts that aren't supposed to be competing with each other.
Other things probably not on the agenda are:  how to do reuse efficiently
with CD-ROMs, how to preserve your job by forcing people ask your
permission to use repository components, and why socialism is a better
way to effect software reuse than capitalism.

    If nothing else, at least the Virginia doughnuts will be good.

Greg
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Greg Aharonian
Source Translation & Optimiztion
P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178