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 | typo |
| 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. | |
| Feb 24, 2011 at 16:28 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki | ||
| Feb 24, 2011 at 15:30 | history | answered | FrustratedWithFormsDesigner | CC BY-SA 2.5 |