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Re: What's wrong with re-inventing wheelsby chromatic (Archbishop) |
on Jul 10, 2006 at 21:54 UTC ( [id://560252]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
What's the harm? Technical risk. Did you read my concerns over inventing Yet Another Templating System? I've done it myself. I did it because I didn't take the time to understand the existing systems. If I'd continued to use it, I would have had to add more and more features and make the code worse and worse to handle those features. I don't doubt that eventually I could refine my design into a decent templating system, but I'm not in the business of writing or maintaining templating systems. It's far from what I need to do and very far from what I want to do and it's a huge risk for me to get sucked into such a task. I don't object to people trying to improve the world, or at least a small piece of it. I do object to people doing their own thing because they don't understand and won't take the time to learn prior art. That's a silly waste of time.
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