From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Image attribute (yet again) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 08:04:34 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <26e971a9-6fcc-4e4c-84ee-d74aecd5b217@googlegroups.com> <2c769c87-72f2-4107-b0bf-3846e3ae6c7a@googlegroups.com> <670160da-e66d-446f-a415-27df39d9a73f@googlegroups.com> <46d53a24-906e-4afc-a5b5-6d3235dfc658@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 06:04:32 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="f723c19487ff37b46636a7a0c755088a"; logging-data="14763"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18aTJw6TB/Mpc2sRlPleur2" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:yugoeqlrJyIFRSVsRbBjQmKzJPY= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: fr Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:58518 Date: 2020-04-28T08:04:34+02:00 List-Id: Le 27/04/2020 à 16:55, Jeffrey R. Carter a écrit : > That's a mischaracterization of the paper. It actually compares the cost > of implementing and using an application-specific component to > implementing and using a reusable component. > > Going to adaic.org and finding a library you like takes longer than > writing a little subprogram like the one under discussion, but a lot > less time than writing such subprograms repeatedly. Well, the "break even" is measured in terms of number of reuses vs. effort to find an existing component. Of course, it assumes that once you have written something yourself, you don't keep rewriting it all the time! -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr