Software Abstractions: there, but not in use.

Read your notes at URL http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/24.54.html#subj1;
in general well structured, but you may want to take a look at "History of
Programming L:anguages" as well as simi8lar reference work on reusable code
(Build Program Techniques and Functional Programming Systems) and portable
translation systems (Pascal P Code and other such works) across the last 3
decades.

YUou may find that the ideas have already been promulgated: just not
propagated and aapplied en amasse.

End result: Rebuild the wheel every 4 weeks to four years, and Microsoft gas
for a Microsoft carburetor in a Microsfot car with Microosfrt wheels
(square, made of granite, and with your own personal hammer and chisel to
round them off, ... every 18 mnoths or so)...

Nothing new tothis: reusable and madular software, with paradigmatic softwar
eabstarctions has been available since prior to Cajori (we called it
Mathematics);

BUT:  salesmen and current consultants  do not like code that resues.

they canot charge for it again.

APL _and_ J have resualbe software paradigmsd: look atthe J Dictionary and
APL programming paradigms.

However, we do nto have in the software INDUSTRY full toolkits from a
rigorous engineering standpoint
(and even engineering is loosing this).

Long discussion ensues.  More later, out of time.

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