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People who should have reinvented the wheel but didn't end up with legacy code and still maintain mainframes.



Well, people who should have reinvented the wheel, ended up stuck with legacy dependencies they've used instead, in various states of abandonment and disintegration now, who do 200 other things besides the wheel function they just needed, and which nobody can understand and are a pain to maintain and frequently break things on updates.

Now they wish they had taken the time to just write their ten lines wheel themselves...

It's almost as if there's a balance...




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