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True component systems have been an elusive goal of the software industry. Ideally, software should be assembled from libraries of pre-written components, just as hardware is assembled from pre-fabricated chips. In reality, large parts of software applications are written “from scratch”, so that software production is still more a craft than an industry.
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Odersky, M. (2004). The Scala Experiment – Can We Provide Better Language Support for Component Systems?. In: Chin, WN. (eds) Programming Languages and Systems. APLAS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3302. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30477-7_24
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