I have been a software professional since I was in high school in 1998. I'm enthusiastic about open source, and I really enjoy working in unusual software systems or within strange constraints.
Yeah, there are a lot of areas of programming where the problems have already been solved for us, we need only take advantage of those already-existent solutions.
Other problem domains which fit into this category (not an exhaustive list), IMO, are time zones and localization. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people try to roll their own solutions in those areas when there have been excellent (and portable) solutions in place for decades.
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Yeah, there are a lot of areas of programming where the problems have already been solved for us, we need only take advantage of those already-existent solutions.
Other problem domains which fit into this category (not an exhaustive list), IMO, are time zones and localization. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people try to roll their own solutions in those areas when there have been excellent (and portable) solutions in place for decades.