[OT] user-management bit of web apps

Jonathan Rockway jon at jrock.us
Thu Jan 31 12:14:19 GMT 2008


* On Thu, Jan 31 2008, Denny wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 11:52 +0100, Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote:
>> So why people do reinvent the wheels?
>
> For fun, for practise, because they want a slightly different wheel from
> the ones they've seen, because they want a very small fast tightly
> specialised wheel instead of a larger slower more generic wheel, etc etc
> etc.

Unlikely.  It's because they are too lazy to learn how this crazy
circular wheel works, so they make a square one instead.  Everyone
understands squares.

Sometimes the lazy people independently discover something good, but
usually the result goes like this:

  http://search.cpan.org/~dmuey/

Regards,
Jonathan Rockway


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