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I mean, nobody's stopping you from writing your perfect, beautiful Haskell implementation of Dijkstra's Algorithm. I guess it's simply a different approach, bu

I mean, nobody's stopping you from writing your perfect, beautiful Haskell implementation of Dijkstra's Algorithm. I guess it's simply a different approach, but I'd rather not waste time re-implementing the wheel when I could be making software that will help somebody fulfill a concrete need.

_bxg1 6y ago
My point is that the ideal scenario, where you write something generic that also meets people's real needs (better than what's already out there), has become a very rare thing.
- bpt3 6y ago
  It's always been a rare thing.