MDA Distilled: Principles of Model-Driven Architecture

Raising the Level of Reuse

Though some pundits have suggested that there has been more reuse of the word “reuse” than practice of it, it's undoubtedly the case that a major area of progress in our industry has involved enabling reuse. In the earliest systems, memory was so expensive that it was often necessary to save memory by reusing inline code. If those ten lines of assembly code were the same for one context as for a second, then the confines of limited memory required their reuse. Of course, over time, the minor distinctions between one context and another required flags to distinguish each case, and reuse in this manner deservedly acquired a poor reputation. The solution to this problem was the invention of the callable function.

Functions, ...