Let Go, Standard Library From Community

[Robert Fraser]

It's not about what can be done in theroy/uif you have enough time, it's about what can be done by (probably slightly less intelligent/educated) programmers quickly. If you ran a company, would you want to pay your employees $30 an hour to reimplement functionality provided in a standard library? What about debugging it?

Dan Wrote:

> Brad Anderson Wrote:
> > Oh to be a fly on the wall when the current lib doesn't have a function you
> > need...
> 
> I can write assembler.  
> I can write D.
> I can write ECMAScript.
> 
> If there's something I need that isn't there, I write it.  I personally think there's something wrong with someone who claims to be a programmer but *can't* solve a trivial puzzle.
> 
> Not knowing what address to write directly to the screenbuffer is forgiveable.  Look it up.  Not being able to implement huffman compression or a quicksort or binary search, or a jump gate after knowing what you need to achieve... well, that means you lost that gleam in your eye you had back in kindergarten.
> 
> - Dan