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If modern tires are considered reinventing the wooden wheels, sure, then reinventing wheel is the main form of making progress. But I doubt that's how people th
by justicezyx 5y ago
If modern tires are considered reinventing the wooden wheels, sure, then reinventing wheel is the main form of making progress. But I doubt that's how people thinking about reinventing wheel, when they use that phrase to mock others of wasting energy inventing something that has already a very-well-working alternative.
- pjmlp 5y agoSo you would drive a chariot on the same places as a four wheel traction drive Jeep?
- justicezyx 5y agoSorry, I was saying that reinventing wheel does not apply to the invention of modern tires...
- pjmlp 5y agoSo why aren't we all using JOVIAL to develop IoT systems? Apparently it wasn't required to reinvent any other high level language for embedded systems programming, it was already solved problem in 1960. Why reinvent the wheel for embedded systems programming?
- the_only_law 5y agoIdk about JOVIAL, but I certain mind too see some modern Ada out there.