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Relentless Repairability or Reckless Reuse: Whether or Not to Rebuild a Concern with Your Familiar Tools and Materials

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Marcel Taeumel,

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Onward! 2022: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3563835.3568733

Published: 01 December 2022 Publication History

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We must retain liveness and exploratory practices within the programming systems that make us feel most productive. However, the temptation to just reuse black boxes through limited interfaces is pervasive. We expect time savings and better performance at the cost of poor repairability. Fortunately, we also know about the benefits of having an open implementation constructed from familiar materials, integrated with familiar tools. Consequently, it is primarily a matter of “just building it” ... again? Piece of cake. What could possibly go wrong?

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Index Terms

Relentless Repairability or Reckless Reuse: Whether or Not to Rebuild a Concern with Your Familiar Tools and Materials
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging
  2. Software notations and tools

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Matthes LTaeumel MMiranda EHirschfeld R(2024)Multi-threaded OpenSmalltalk VM: Choosing a Strategy for ParallelizationCompanion Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming10.1145/3660829.3660846(87-93)Online publication date: 11-Mar-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3660829.3660846
Taeumel MLincke JHirschfeld R(2024)Unanticipated Progress Indication: Continuous Responsiveness for Courageous ExplorationCompanion Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming10.1145/3660829.3660843(80-86)Online publication date: 11-Mar-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3660829.3660843

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