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>OO was about many things but particularity about code reuse. Is that also a bad thing?

No - but OO wasn't as successful at delivering code reuse as it was promised to be, especially polymorphic OO.

>Software Engineering will not progress into real Engineering, until it starts building on the past instead of throwing away past lessons.

SE won't be real Engineering until we start being able to do things like measuring the robustness of a system, or projecting it's maintenance costs. I think we are as far away from this as we've ever been.