when your write perl / php
 

coders be honest do you constantly go back to stuff you have done before and cut and paste about 50% of it and modify it a bit ?

or do I just suck ?

a lot do that to save time

hmm, nope

there is nothing wrong with reusing old code, but it's best to package up stuff into functions/classes and then just drop those into new projects... only a fool would rewrite everything from scratch each time...

Yes, it's called code templates and I have 1,000s of them.

"why reinvent the wheel"

Oh hell yes. Absolutely. All the more reason to write good code the first time.

Preach the fuck on.

If you were a teacher and you wrote the best lesson plan in the WORLD for your 8th grade British Literature class one year....would you start over the next year :winkwink:

you are better of creating libraries with your most used functions.

i was talking to a friend nathan about coding, did he do some work for you a while back?

I try not to copy and paste... Maybe I might resuse an old function once in a blue moon, but it is so unlikely. Most the shit I write is fresh, even if I had just reinveinted the wheel.

Not for me personally. For the company, maybe. I dont do the hiring of programmers/designers and the like. So it's possible I guess.

I write everything in assembly, from scratch each time. :)

Remastered, any tips on organizing your code templates?

first lesson my university prof taught me: "a real programmer is lazy".
so yes, i reuse a lot of code.

Definitely use classes. Inheritance and shit can save you a ton of time. Why write code to send emails everytime when you can do it in a single class and include, or form checking, database handling etc. Just a waste of time if you don't use classes imho.

I like that :o))