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Outstanding Objects (Developed Dirt Cheap)

Posted by michael on from the search-twice-code-once dept.

Mark Leighton Fisher writes "Some readers might be interested in Outstanding Objects (Developed Dirt Cheap); or "Why Don't Developers Search the Literature?" It seems like I still see a lot of wheel reinvention going on, even with the wealth of code and information now available on the Net."

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  1. AC/DC by blackmonday · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wasn't aware that AC/DC was involved in software development till now.

    1. Re:AC/DC by Roto-Rooter+Man · · Score: 5, Funny

      After the dot-com bubble burst, AC/DC were hired as consultants by a number of tech firms. Apparently due to their expertise in getting "back in black".

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    2. Re:AC/DC by kin_korn_karn · · Score: 5, Funny

      For those about to pun, get on the highway to hell.

    3. Re:AC/DC by operagost · · Score: 3, Funny
      For those about to hack...

      FIRE!

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    4. Re:AC/DC by leshert · · Score: 3, Funny

      Whew.... I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought of AC/DC when reading this summary:

      Outstanding objects, and they're developed dirt cheap
      Outstanding objects, and they're developed dirt cheap

      Functors... serialization... patterns...
      Developed dirt cheap
      Regex... templates... iterators...
      Developed dirt cheap

  2. Re:A few reasons by Bull999999 · · Score: 2, Funny

    4) You may get sued by SCO.

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  3. Very Interesting... by delirium28 · · Score: 3, Funny
    ... but I could have wrote it better, using my own hybrid authoring algorithm.

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  4. Laziness wins out for me... by Gaxx · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always hit the net before emarking on coding. There's no way I'm gonna spend 6 hours throwing together code that someone else has spent 20 lovingly moulding for me :-) I just too damn lazy... What can I say, Wally is my hero :-)

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  5. Dirty Code by bplipschitz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Done Dirt Cheap.

  6. Re:Simple explanation by ERJ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, of course, my way IS better.

  7. Playing with metaphors by peterpi · · Score: 4, Funny
    When was the last time one car had exactly the same wheels as another? (Stop; I don't actually care for the answser).

    We reinvent the wheel because new wheels look sexy, not because they roll any better.

    I have absolutely no idea whether there's a point to be proved with that, but it's kinda interesting.

  8. Cause the way software development is taught by jj_johny · · Score: 3, Funny
    1. Lots of students don't even listen in class about the reuse stuff.

    2. They are taught the complete spectrum of software development from function to complete program. So they think that they can do it all reallllly well.

    3. They don't get in the habit when they start.

    4. They get paid by the hour not the thought. (sorry thats an old lawyer joke.)

  9. hmmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I would say that about 30% of the code in use in my organization is from freely available sources, and used with total disregard to any license it was available under.

  10. Re:Laziness by L.+VeGas · · Score: 4, Funny

    Most of us are lazy by nature.

    I completely disagree. As a matter of fact, I have an article that totally disproves this, but I don't feel like finding it right now.

    Maybe after my nap.

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  11. Re:Simple explanation by fgb · · Score: 3, Funny

    I agree. But my way is BEST.

  12. Re:I generally find creating faster than borrowing by meloneg · · Score: 3, Funny
    Back in my day I had to write games in BASIC, on a 4.7Mhz computer with no hard disk and 128K of RAM. And I was grateful

    This is the first time I have ever seen a tagline of this form that I could agree with and feel was a reasonable statement. Aren't these supposed to be ridiculously overstated?

  13. A n00b's Experience by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well, you see, it was because I was running late on one of my programming projects and so I decided to um...reuse code I found online. Found a site of someone calling himself the BOFH which seemed like a catchy acronym so I dug around for some of his code snippets.

    He went on about how it was great to put comments on code (which was something our instructor told us was a good thing(TM) so instant credibility!!!)

    So I proceeded to borrow his comments too -- even though I wasn't sure how rm -rf * was supposed to mean "remark."

    Aaaand this is why I don't borrow source code anymore.

  14. Re:legal issues by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    here here!

    and if you can't shoot your foot off (C) how are you going to blow your whole leg off (C++).

    And if you can't think of a good reason to do that... well, I think the phrase girly-man was invoked!!

    -C++ Troll

  15. Microsoft: Great Code Reuse by MyHair · · Score: 2, Funny

    Some of the best code reuse I've seen is in Microsoft products. On my Win2k PC I have about 20 copies of 5 different versions of MSVCRT*.DLL. Previous versions of Windows had similar reuse of VBRUN*.DLL.