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code reuse (was: Re: graphics issues (was: Re: ...))


From: John W. Eaton
Subject: code reuse (was: Re: graphics issues (was: Re: ...))
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:24:41 -0400

On  1-Oct-2006, Sebastien Loisel wrote:

| Code reuse is great, which is why we want to use Octave and not NLISP
| http://nlisp.info/nlisp-faq.html,

Sorry, I guess I don't follow what you mean by this.

| but reusing someone else's wrapper around fread() is just a waste of time.

I suppose it depends on what the wrapper does and why.  But anyway,
you don't rewrite fread all the time do you?  So where to you draw the
line?  If there is useful code in a library that does something you
want, why not use it?

jwe


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