I agree, but mind you, libraries have always been consciously desired and heavily implemented. Lady Ada did it. Historically but more recently, the first operat

I agree, but mind you, libraries have always been consciously desired and heavily implemented. Lady Ada did it. Historically but more recently, the first operating systems began life as mere libraries. But the worst problem I ever had was a vice president (acquired when our company was acquired) who insisted that all programming was, should, and must by-edict be only about gluing together existing libraries. Talk about incompetent -- and about misguided beliefs in his own "superior intelligence". I had to protect my team of 20+ from him and his stupid edicts and complaints, while still having us meet tight deadlines of various sorts (via programming, not so much by gluing). Part of our team did graphical design for the web. Doing that by only gluing together existing images makes as little sense as it does for programming.