One of my pet theories is that if you are building a software engineering product, you should never write your own tools. You can't sell them, and you'll just b

One of my pet theories is that if you are building a software engineering product, you should never write your own tools. You can't sell them, and you'll just be learning lessons completely unrelated to your product. However; if you are building a software engineering culture, you should write as many of your own tools as you can get away with. Nothing builds culture like a shared unique experience.