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That's not really the point. If someone says "look how easy it is to do X," then I want to see them doing X from scratch, so I can get an idea how hard it would
by DennisP 7y ago
That's not really the point. If someone says "look how easy it is to do X," then I want to see them doing X from scratch, so I can get an idea how hard it would be to use the language for my unsolved problems. If it turns out they're just dragging in prewritten code, that's useless to me.
- klez 7y agoDepends. If they told me "look how easy it is to apply this function to a certain subset of the elements of this array" and they show me map and filter instead of a for loop I would be all for it, even if it's "prewritten" code. But I get the example about roman numerals, editors and browsers.
- wolco 7y agoThe browser drop-in was extremely useful. I made a blazing fast browser had view-source as a first class button was able to add in my favourites as icons. Better yet I could make the browser fullscreen. I would consider it a browser that used an engine. Now a days everyone but firefox is using WebKit.. not much of a difference. Curious how you would do that today without vb.net
- dual_basis 7y agoI guess the point is that you can't really say you've made a browser. It's like bringing store-bought brownies to a party and claiming you made them yourself.
- Crinus 7y agoBut he made the browser - the browser is the application itself (what he made) - not the browser's engine. Saying that he didn't make a browser is like saying Notepad++'s author didn't really made an editor because he used Scintilla.