in reply to Re: Use modules or roll your own?
in thread Use modules or roll your own?

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.

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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

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