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Re:A Curated List of Falsehoods Programmers Believe In by majewsky on Thursday February 21, 2019 @06:46AM (#19216134)
It's also important to remind people to not roll your own when battle-tested libraries exist.

(The exception being, of course, building something for the sake of learning. By all means, build your own date formatting functions, but don't put them in production.)

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Re:A Curated List of Falsehoods Programmers Believe In by rendall on Thursday February 21, 2019 @07:01AM (#19216200)
Assuming that the library exactly serves the needs of the project without much cruft, or the cost of rolling your own is higher than using a library all else considered, and the library is well written and documented, then I agree.

As a completely unrelated aside, I wonder if there should be a "Falsehoods programmers believe about libraries"

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Re:A Curated List of Falsehoods Programmers Believe In by BerislavLopac on Thursday February 21, 2019 @07:56AM (#19216497)
I'd certainly like to see "Falsehoods programmers believe about passwords". And for that matter, "Falsehoods programmers believe about programming", and possibly "Falsehoods programmers believe about falsehoods". ;)
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