I think a large percent of programmers want to rewrite things because they focus on what's lacking in some way, expect to do everything better than the next person, it's easier/more fun/feels more productive to write than to read/grasp other people's code etc....
He quoted Andrew Leonard quoting Larry Constantine but took a light-hearted sentance and seems to deliberately misunderstanding or taking it too literally.
But the rewrite/reuse issue needs to be addressed in a per-case basis... but I've seen thing beeing rewritten way too many times that should have been reused and usually ending up in much worse shape after that....
Although, I've also seen rewrites that improves stuff a lot.. but usually it's very very obvious when that's the right action to take.
I think a large percent of programmers want to rewrite things because they focus on what's lacking in some way, expect to do everything better than the next person, it's easier/more fun/feels more productive to write than to read/grasp other people's code etc....
He quoted Andrew Leonard quoting Larry Constantine but took a light-hearted sentance and seems to deliberately misunderstanding or taking it too literally.
But the rewrite/reuse issue needs to be addressed in a per-case basis... but I've seen thing beeing rewritten way too many times that should have been reused and usually ending up in much worse shape after that....
Although, I've also seen rewrites that improves stuff a lot.. but usually it's very very obvious when that's the right action to take.