I don't mind people building on prior art, to either extend it or replace it. But before they start ripping up a perfectly fine piece of art, I want to know that they've studied it thoroughly, looked at it from all angles, in all angles of light, in the morning and night, under all weather conditions, until they can practically recite each line from memory (horribly mixing metaphors here, forgive me).

I have what I hope is a good instinct about whether this level of understanding has been accomplished, mostly based on the noises I make when I do it myself. {grin}

If someone tells me "I don't want to use CGI.pm, it's too _blank_", I say "pshaw! off with you, troll!"

If someone tells me "I want to rewrite CGI.pm this weekend, as an exercise in hubris", I say "do you know everything it does, and do you have the four months that it will take to do that?"

If someone tells me "I want to fix the problem where CGI.pm does X instead of Y contrary to spec Z, and I'll work with Lincoln to incorporate it into version N+1", I say "go for it!".

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

In reply to Re: Where do you want to go today? (a little deeper than CGI.pm) by merlyn
in thread Where do you want to go today? (a little deeper than CGI.pm) by deprecated

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