Chapter 4. Libraries
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference”
—Reinhold Niebuhr
We as programmers need similar strengths. We have great visions of what our software should accomplish, and we need very strong Courage to make this happen. Nonetheless, a day has only 24 hours and even hardcore geeks eat and sleep sometimes. As a consequence, we cannot program everything we dream of (or are paid for) by ourselves and have to rely on existing software. Then we have to Accept what this software provides us by implementing interfaces with appropriate pre- and post-processing. The decision whether to use existing software or write a new program requires ...
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