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Timeline for Harmful temptations in programming

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Mar 17, 2011 at 16:05 comment added jwenting and more often entire existing products...
Mar 4, 2011 at 15:01 comment added FrustratedWithFormsDesigner @David Thornley: Doing it as a learning activity is fine. Doing it because it's cheaper does not always result in it being cheaper if it takes too much longer (at least in a corporate environment - for personal projects with no budget this is fine).
Mar 4, 2011 at 14:58 comment added David Thornley I've done this sort of thing, either because it was a personal project and it was cheaper to do my own, or to learn something, or because I was told to do so. (I've also been in situations where there were no satisfactory existing frameworks or libraries.)
Mar 4, 2011 at 14:24 history edited Nathan Baulch CC BY-SA 2.5
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Feb 25, 2011 at 10:10 comment added Donal Fellows @Christopher: Then that'd be a good reason to reimplement (or find a different library with acceptable license). But too often the reason for reimplementing is just NIH…
Feb 25, 2011 at 4:13 comment added Мסž "but it'll only take a week to write and our framework will do exactly what we want, the free one online one is probably full of bugs"
Feb 24, 2011 at 23:27 comment added Carson63000 And of course, the opposite tempation: using an unfamiliar framework or library and assuming that it will do what you need and everything will go smoothly.
Feb 24, 2011 at 17:09 comment added Christopher Mahan Sometimes the existing frameworks and libraries are marked Verboten in big red letters by IT legal.
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Feb 24, 2011 at 15:30 history answered FrustratedWithFormsDesigner CC BY-SA 2.5