Jeff Moden (3/1/2013)
ScottPletcher (3/1/2013)
Code reuse is another tricky subject. It generally gets talked about far more often than it is genuinely done. A few developers are bad enough, but trying to get hundreds of developers to build and use reuseable code is like trying to get Congress to agree on something.
Companies that have "hundreds of developers" will also have code libraries and standards to follow. Usually, the first standard is to check the library for code simply because eliminates testing because the code is already approved. That saves money and development time.
Very easy to say, extraordinarly hard to do in actual practice.
You have to determine in an existing needed function, say, already exists. Verify that it does indeed do what you are looking for, without unacceptable side effects, etc..
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