On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Michael Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes - don't reinvent the wheel. It's been done. I think it's good that he wants to develop his own, but he should study the existing ones first to see how his will be better for his purpose. After all, if Rasmus Lerdorf hadn't been impressed by Microsoft's original ASP and decided he'd reinvent the wheel he wouldn't have invented Php. Ditto Richard Stallman with GNU and Linus Torvalds for Linux -- both reinventing the Unix (R) wheel ... which was, in turn, a partial reinvention of Multics. "If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants. ..." Sir Isaac Newton after Bernard of Chartres -- Bruce Clement Home: http://www.clement.co.nz/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/Bruce_Clement Google Buzz: http://www.google.com/profiles/aotearoanz "Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field." Mikhail Kalashnikov -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
