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

[seanwitte]

Originally Posted by Pavan

One of my I was gonna post. FIRST stands for a little more than you are giving credit for and help spread Gracious professionalism along with other skills you need to suceed in the real world.

Although some rules seem pointless they are rules none the less and you MUST follow them. But than again programming is often very simlar. What are you going to do? But I believe that the point of this rule is so that the rookies learn how the program itself works and get to work on it and learn something about programming rather than just cut and paste.

It's the difference between building up a body of expertise from year to year and starting from scratch. Do you want to start next season where are are now or where you were last December? If you're rebuilding the codebase every season there will be limited opportunities for innovation because a large percentage of the time will be spent rebuilding basic components. It's like writing a GUI library every time you write a windows app. You'll get better at it, but you still have to DO it every time. That time should be spent doing something useful, but that's just my opinion.