Someone needs to take jwz aside...

[Matt Sergeant]

Abigail wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 06:43:48PM +0200, Lars Thegler wrote:
>    
>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Dave Hodgkinson<davehodg at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>      
>>> http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/04/a-badge-for-the-software-industrys-failures/
>>>
>>> Or does he have a point?
>>>        
>> No, code reuse is a *good* thing.
>>      
>
> Sometimes.
>
> But I've seen so much code that's needlessly convulated just so it can
> just some code (or worse, that the code can be reused), that I take the
> dogma "code reuse" with more salt than the yearly recommended dosis.
>    
Especially when the code reuse in this case is JUST to get access to 
strptime.

Matt.


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