I am a huge proponent of writing as little code as possible. To that end, making use of third-party libraries, frameworks, and so on are marks of a great progra

I am a huge proponent of writing as little code as possible. To that end, making use of third-party libraries, frameworks, and so on are marks of a great programmer (to me). Even still, a product should speak for itself; it should not have to be justified by the amount of time it took to create it.