9 Dec
2008
9 Dec
'08
11:09 a.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Oh yes. Particulalry if the pre-written thing is not pre-tested, and is
as buggy has hell. Or if it doesn't quite do what you want. Or if you
want to use it with/on some odd hardware (that is a particular problem
for me).
Even with open-source stuff it can sometimes be quicker to write from
scratch rather than try to unravel somewhat obfuscated code.
It depends -- a lot -- on what the program is supposed to do. As I said,
I'd not write a C compiler. But I would weite my own monitor program, or
file conversion utilities, or disassembler, or...
-tony
Well, I am not going to write a C compiler from
scratch. But certainly
for some of the simpler tools I've found it quicker in the past to write
my own versions.
I'm curious as to why one would do that? Is it really quicker to
design, implement, test, maintain, support something on your own rather
than use a pretested application/utility?