"Reinventing the wheel", when applied specifically to programming, is the act of reprogramming something that has already been made, and which can alternatively be copied from a pre-existing source and reused.
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Is reinventing the wheel really all that bad?
Its common knowledge in programming that reinventing the wheel is bad or evil.
But why is that?
I am not suggesting that it's good. I believe it to be wrong. However, I once read an article that said, if someone is doing something wrong…
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