11-08-2022, 05:07 PM
These have all been very interesting, informative, and fun reads.
Personally I have made some libraries, but like others, I very often needed to modify them to fulfill other or additional needs of the app I was building. To that end, I'd rather code an app than spend more and more time tweaking a library for every given situation.
So what if I have to start a lot of projects from scratch? That seldom bothers me, unless I'm pressed for time. Firstly, it's fun to code just about any project. Secondly, as I get older, I find coding things I've coded before helps to slow the cognitive declining process. Now if I could just find my keys... Anyway, the biggest jaw drop moment I had in regard to aging was the pleasure of meeting an MIT professor of mathematics at my bank, about 15 years ago. He was 75. I started asking him some questions about his experiences and he quickly told me that back in the day he could speak for hours on theorems and equations, but today he was just happy he could balance his check book! [Insert horror smiley.]
So I think I fall more into the camp of reinventing the wheel. Now Steve would tell you that most wheels leave tread marks on the road, but mine tend to leave a few corner indentations along the way.
Pete
Personally I have made some libraries, but like others, I very often needed to modify them to fulfill other or additional needs of the app I was building. To that end, I'd rather code an app than spend more and more time tweaking a library for every given situation.
So what if I have to start a lot of projects from scratch? That seldom bothers me, unless I'm pressed for time. Firstly, it's fun to code just about any project. Secondly, as I get older, I find coding things I've coded before helps to slow the cognitive declining process. Now if I could just find my keys... Anyway, the biggest jaw drop moment I had in regard to aging was the pleasure of meeting an MIT professor of mathematics at my bank, about 15 years ago. He was 75. I started asking him some questions about his experiences and he quickly told me that back in the day he could speak for hours on theorems and equations, but today he was just happy he could balance his check book! [Insert horror smiley.]
So I think I fall more into the camp of reinventing the wheel. Now Steve would tell you that most wheels leave tread marks on the road, but mine tend to leave a few corner indentations along the way.
Pete