Discovering what’s already out there, and journalist archaeologists
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006Steve Yelvington, a big name in the online journalism world, wrote last week about many programmers’ unnecessary desire to reinvent the wheel with every new gig. Near the end of his post he writes (emphasis added):
Vernor Vinge’s notion of the “programmer archaeologist” really is about discovering what’s already out there, and placing it into valuable […]