But more, I'm disappointed that we haven't spent the effort that goes into reinventing these things every ten minutes on something more productive. There are plenty of simple things in my everyday programming work that could be automated to take less time, given the right language tools or libraries or development environment, but where it is still faster in practice to do everything the "hard" way than the "easy" way. How am I ever going to code up all my pet project ideas in a single lifetime at this rate? ;-)
But more, I'm disappointed that we haven't spent the effort that goes into reinventing these things every ten minutes on something more productive. There are plenty of simple things in my everyday programming work that could be automated to take less time, given the right language tools or libraries or development environment, but where it is still faster in practice to do everything the "hard" way than the "easy" way. How am I ever going to code up all my pet project ideas in a single lifetime at this rate? ;-)