in reply to When should a wheel be reinvented
Man who reinvent wheel knows awful lot about making wheels.
So treat reinvention as a learning exercise.
I'm planning to 'reinvent' a Huffman coding module - I'll learn heaps about the algorithm, and there is plenty of scope for 'improving' it via speed improvement with C and XS, different dictionaries of symbol frequencies, different style interfaces(oo/functional/tied), Apache modules to acts as a deflate/inflate filters, SOAP/.NET interfaces, etc etc
In fact one could use a problem like this to compare the subjective ease/power qualities of a language - how hard is it to do in Perl/Python/LISP/C/.NET/Ruby/BF etc
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use warnings;use strict;use brain;
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Re^2: When should a wheel be reinvented
by ysth (Canon) on Jun 30, 2004 at 17:49 UTC | |
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Jun 30, 2004 at 18:05 UTC | |
by ysth (Canon) on Jun 30, 2004 at 18:12 UTC | |
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Jun 30, 2004 at 18:17 UTC |
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