Re:Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Unless You Plan on Learning Mor...
by sunkencity on Sunday February 08, 2009 @12:51PM
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Great article.
One of the main reasons I want to use as much library/finished code in my production projects as possible is not just that it's faster to integrate a finished code, but that there's an unknown X in for every new line of code you write and that is how many weird bugs might come up, and how much time that will cost to fix.
But then. OTOH, if you never try to reinvent the wheel you cannot judge between wheels very good either.
One of the main reasons I want to use as much library/finished code in my production projects as possible is not just that it's faster to integrate a finished code, but that there's an unknown X in for every new line of code you write and that is how many weird bugs might come up, and how much time that will cost to fix.
But then. OTOH, if you never try to reinvent the wheel you cannot judge between wheels very good either.