I'm not saying everyone is a Picasso, or an Einstein. I'm not saying there isn't a lot of crappy re-invented wheels either. There's also a lot of crappy art and debunked physics theories too. But we don't get anywhere by telling Picasso at an early age to stop messing with paints and go milk the goats because 'everything to know about art has already been learned by others'.

I rather suspect that people who've written and maintained argument parsers -- especially if they've dealt with feature requests and bug reports -- have a much better idea what argument parsers need to do than someone who's never written an argument parser before.

And how exactly did these 'people' get that knowledge? Divine inspiration? What, where they born with argument parser code in their heads?

Neither you nor I have the power to predict who will become giants and who will merely blot the playground with weeds. But surely there will be no giants at all if all we do is stamp out seeds where we find them.

In reply to Re^4: Reinvent the wheel! by ruzam
in thread Reinvent the wheel! by telemachus

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