Ethics 101: To re-use or not to re-use?

[Steve W]

Originally Posted by seanwitte

Writing software from scratch is completely different. No matter how good your design or algorithm is, reproducing a complex piece of code does not scale the way a mechanical component does.

I agree that writing from scratch is different but that is not what has been said I don't believe. People are saying that they think it a waste of time to re-type which is legal so why not just cut and paste? I believe that it just that people don't want to do what is in the rules because in is an inconvenience. I too would like to make my job easier by reusing parts from last years robot. After all they would have to be modified to fit on the new robot and adjusted for the new game. Why do we want to rebuild an already good unit?