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Re: "Rites of Passage" wheel reinventingby kvale (Monsignor) |
on Feb 26, 2004 at 21:50 UTC ( [id://332107]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I have often built recursive-descent parsers for various projects, when Parse::RecDescent would have sufficed. I once built an entire XML parser out of pure perl, when expat was just laying about ready to be attached to a perl module. Fortunately Larry Wall had more sense than I.
My other major lossage was recreating a lot matrix algorithms before learning about the Perl Data Language PDL. Moral: Always looks for a wheel first, even if you want to roll your own. It will always turn out better :) -Mark
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