Timeline for What's your view on using other people's code?
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| Sep 28, 2010 at 8:17 | comment | added | rmontagud | It is also partially true for scripting languages.. Are you telling me that you're really going to read that huge and bloated library when you're in a pinch and need to meet the dates? It happened to me with third party PHP classes they were written in a so messy way that I did not even dare to understand how it was done it just worked for me and I'd bother later when i had more time. For code snippets you can take your time and see what it does, even spend a few minutes removing redundant code/optimized | |
| Sep 27, 2010 at 17:19 | comment | added | Peter Boughton | This is true of a compiled executable/library, but NOT of a piece of code - if you've got the source you can read exactly what it is doing, so it is not a black box. | |
| Sep 27, 2010 at 10:15 | history | answered | rmontagud | CC BY-SA 2.5 |