Re: Use modules or roll your own?

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Re: Re: Use modules or roll your own? by mstone (Deacon) on Jul 30, 2002 at 01:55 UTC
Roll your own perl? Roll your own awk (like Larry Wall did)? Roll your own OS? Roll your own unix (like Linus Torvalds and/or Richard Stallman did)? Roll your own gopher (like Tim Berners-Lee did)? Seems like we have a lot of respect for those who chose to reinvent the wheel and got something good.	[reply]
Re: Use modules or roll your own? by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jul 30, 2002 at 09:42 UTC
They didn't reinvent the wheel for the sake of reinventing the wheel. They did it to get something better, because they were not satisfied with was already out there. And that's exactly the reason I've been given in this thread when I decide not to use a module, but roll my own. Larry didn't write Perl to get a better understanding of awk. Abigail	[reply]
Re: Re: Use modules or roll your own? by mitd (Curate) on Jul 30, 2002 at 03:30 UTC
mitd notes that it may be possible at the quantum level to 'roll your own universe'. In which case Abigail's list could only be achieved through reverse engineering. mitd-Made in the Dark 'Interactive! Paper tape is interactive! If you don't believe me I can show you my paper cut scars!'	[reply]