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Re: When should a wheel be reinventedby leriksen (Curate) |
on Jun 30, 2004 at 01:30 UTC ( [id://370662]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Man who reinvent wheel knows awful lot about making wheels. So treat reinvention as a learning exercise. I'm planning to 'reinvent' a Huffman coding module - I'll learn heaps about the algorithm, and there is plenty of scope for 'improving' it via speed improvement with C and XS, different dictionaries of symbol frequencies, different style interfaces(oo/functional/tied), Apache modules to acts as a deflate/inflate filters, SOAP/.NET interfaces, etc etc In fact one could use a problem like this to compare the subjective ease/power qualities of a language - how hard is it to do in Perl/Python/LISP/C/.NET/Ruby/BF etc +++++++++++++++++
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