Ink & Switch malleable software essay

[Apostolis]

Components —> reusable pieces like software in a library
standards → abstractions / specification that leads to increase in variation.

From the thread on lithification:

Lithification

Some more thoughts: A. Abstraction vs reusability Assuming there is a membrane that separates a component from its environment, that has constrains on both the component and its environment. We could have big variation on the environment and a single implementation of the component in which case, we talk about reusability. the component that only works on a specific environment, in which case we talk about abstraction. I believe that we are interested in abstraction and not so much reusa…