Let Go, Standard Library From Community

[Alexander Panek]

Dan wrote:
> Alexander Panek Wrote:
> [...]
> You obviously were quite offended by this line of thought.

Might be. The reason for this may lie in the circumstances of my 
"career" as a programmer. I'm not attending university yet, I am just 
having my last year's finals at school. This means, problems of academic 
level are just new to me, but I'm constantly gaining bits of knowledge 
how to achieve different kinds of goals. However, I love beautifully 
designed systems in general, solving problems in the most elegant way. 
This *may* involve implementing a sorting algorithm at times, to achieve 
the goal of providing an elegant solution for a given problem. Yet, this 
is not an every-day obstacle. Good programmers are not anymore those, 
who can write the fastest algorithms with as few lines as possible, 
using almost no memory.. programming is more than that.

In fact, it's not programming alone. I've attended a school for 
Electrical Engineering the last five years, where I've learned different 
kinds of ways to solve problems. There are mathematical ways, graphical 
ways, weirdo-graphical ways (yea.. VBA-like :P), semi-mathematical ways 
and analog electronic that can achieve what you want. Still, it's not 
the knowledge in detail alone that makes a good EE, it's the knowledge 
of what tools and environments are available that makes a good engineer, 
in general. Apart from that.. I think programmers, and engineers in 
general are the laziest people you can find, when it comes to solutions, 
but that doesn't make them bad engineers.

Kind regards,
Alex