11-08-2022, 12:08 AM
Well, as you guys can see in the Libraries section, I'm one of those fellows who tend to try and write everything in a library-style format. I believe strongly in the concept of "write code once, get it working, and reuse it forever and ever".
Libraries, once written, only expand and get better over time -- which doesn't hold true if one is talking about just writing code from scratch. Take the SaveImage library for example -- it started with just BMP export ability. Once that started working, I could expand it to work with PNG files. Then GIFs. The JPG files... If I had to write a routine to save an image from scratch, there's a very good chance that whatever I wrote would be error-prone, limited-case use, and nowhere near as flexible or powerful.
The more you use and reuse library code, the more refined it gets. It only gets better over time.
Libraries, once written, only expand and get better over time -- which doesn't hold true if one is talking about just writing code from scratch. Take the SaveImage library for example -- it started with just BMP export ability. Once that started working, I could expand it to work with PNG files. Then GIFs. The JPG files... If I had to write a routine to save an image from scratch, there's a very good chance that whatever I wrote would be error-prone, limited-case use, and nowhere near as flexible or powerful.
The more you use and reuse library code, the more refined it gets. It only gets better over time.