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Re:Do We Worship Complexity? by BurningFrog on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @12:54AM (#18236219)
But all this amounts to trivia questions about things you would never actually do or have to know when working as a software engineer.

The point of a library function is that I don't have to worry about how it works, so I can focus on writing things that are not already in libraries!

Re:Do We Worship Complexity? by flukus on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @02:51AM (#18236729)
> The point of a library function is that I don't have to worry about how it works, so I can focus on writing things that are not already in libraries!

The point of a library function is so it doesn't have to be re-implemented everywhere, not so you can be oblivious to how it works. If your oblivious to what is going on behind every function call you will write terrible code.