Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

Gregory Bond gnb at itga.com.au
Mon Sep 12 01:57:52 EDT 2005


François Pinard wrote:
> In computer
> science, I often saw old concepts resurrecting with new names, and then
> mistaken for recent inventions.  New ideas are not so frequent...
>

"There are very few problems in Computer Science that cannot be solved 
with an additional level of indirection."

  -- Dunno who said it first, but I wish it was me.



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