Software Portability Considerations for Multiple Applications over Multiple Sites.
Thomas H. Munnecke · PubMed Central · 1981
There are great benefits to be obtained by distributing the cost of software development over multiple sites. Both economies and dis-economies of scale become prominent when broad-based software portability is looked at carefully. However, traditional data processing techniques are oriented to making specific users, rather than general software for a class of users. This trend toward overspecification is getting worse with traditional data processing languages, while other standard languages are confronting it.