Because if there was a huge, widely available archive of high quality free libraries for C and C++, how would that affect the job security of the C++ programmer?

I mean, you'd spend a month developing this great library, then someone would point out to you that there was already something on CCAN to do it, and you just wasted a month, and need to waste more to bring your code into line with the "standard" interface available in the "standard" library. Would managers like that? No.

Or, even worse, you would be able to do most projects in a half, or (shudder) a quarter of the time of rewriting all of those libraries yourself. You might need to look for another contract in 3 months!

No - let's bury that thought, and keep reinventing the wheel time and time again. After all, the best person to support production code is the person who wrote it. And hey, you know what that means - being able to name your own rate.

2006-06-13 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines

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Original title: 'Duh'

In reply to Duh (Re: Interesting article on CPAN and C/C++) by mugwumpjism
in thread Interesting article on CPAN and C/C++ by adamsj

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