Hoosgot

http://internetducttape.com/2008/02/12/open-source-code-re-use-fact-or-fiction/ asks Hoosgot,

Don’t reinvent the wheel. Like all advice it’s much easier to say then it is to do, particularly when it comes to programming. Programmers suffer from a horrible mental disease called Not Invented Here Syndrome (it’s in the DSM — check if you don’t believe me). We will happily rewrite a perfectly good tool because someone else wrote it and it’s easier to rewrite than it is to understand. Sure, we might not handle all the bells and whistles of the original tool (unicode is for sissies) — but at least we got to DIY. Rewriting from scratch is particularly a bad idea when it comes to open source software. If there’s an open source library or plugin available that …

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