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by mbrock 3776 days ago
Richard P. Gabriel's book Patterns of Software has a chapter about that. (It's free and out of print.)

Bluntly, it's kind of like: if you really understand a style of house building, you should be able to deliver it as a prefab. Maybe true in some way, but also neglects the drawbacks of standardized components.