I’ve just noticed that builder.au has an interesting interview with Ivar Jacobson where he considers reuse, process, modelling and the future of the field.

“To really automate … you need to find some identifiable patterns and apply these patterns over and over again with slightly different inputs — that makes it hard because it’s not reusable code only. I think reusable code has increased, we definitely use more reusable code than we did 20 years ago — not as much as we could — but we use more. When it comes to patterns you need to have different parameters based upon the context.” – sounds a lot like a Software Product Lines approach is what he’s advocating.