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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I've been in many software development situations where I suddenly realized I was accidentally reinventing something, like TCP/IP or an RTOS or a programming language.
I've also been in situations where I've been handed code where the people involved did the same thing, but they clearly didn't realize that's what they were doing as they kept pushing ahead ignoring available solutions or knowledge and making a horrible undifferentiated mess.