• Robert Fraser <fraserofthenight gmail.com> Apr 18 2007

Robert Fraser <fraserofthenight gmail.com> writes:

It's not about what can be done in theroy/uif you have enough time, it's about
what can be done by (probably slightly less intelligent/educated) programmers
quickly. If you ran a company, would you want to pay your employees $30 an hour
to reimplement functionality provided in a standard library? What about
debugging it?

Dan Wrote:

 Brad Anderson Wrote:
 Oh to be a fly on the wall when the current lib doesn't have a function you
 need...


 I can write assembler.  
 I can write D.
 I can write ECMAScript.
 
 If there's something I need that isn't there, I write it.  I personally think
there's something wrong with someone who claims to be a programmer but *can't*
solve a trivial puzzle.
 
 Not knowing what address to write directly to the screenbuffer is forgiveable.
 Look it up.  Not being able to implement huffman compression or a quicksort or
binary search, or a jump gate after knowing what you need to achieve... well,
that means you lost that gleam in your eye you had back in kindergarten.
 
 - Dan