Abstract
Sometimes programmers don’t mind ‘re-inventing the wheel’ because they find it fun to work out their own solutions to a problem. But if you have something you need to get done, this approach isn’t for you. Using programs and subroutines already developed could save you a considerable amount of time against doing it over again yourself. If you wanted to build a house, for instance, you would buy ready-made glass for the windows rather than trying to make your own glass.
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If carpenters built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
(Weinberg)
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Balkan, E. (1985). Using and Writing Basic Programs. In: Using and programming the Epson HX-20 portable computer. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4862-4_5
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