MIT CSAIL Shares Programmer Wisdom: "There's Already a Library for That"
MIT_CSAIL · x · 2026-11-14
MIT CSAIL quoted Pete Cordoll: "Telling a programmer there's already a library to do X is like telling a songwriter there's already a song about love" — a quip about the culture of reinventing wheels in software.
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