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[pier4r]

Digression about rediscovering the wheel.

I always stumble about the question "why do I want to do it again by myself, if it exists already?"

I find that if one wants to really learn a procedure or technique he has to do it by himself, if possible following only the major directions from an existing solution (because the details alone will be hard enough to solve).

Otherwise it is like using a (non trivial) function on a calculator without thinking much about it. One knows what to expect as result, but one is unable to produce a similar function.

Moreover once one rediscovered the wheel, and learned how to go through the process, one can shape the wheel in different ways that may be useful for others.

So free42 might be at first a partial replacement of the hp 42s, but thanks to its availability everywhere and other factors, it is now a great software on its own.

I myself have to be more aware that having multiple implementations of the same thing seems to be healthy. Like proving the same theorem over and over (in different ways or providing different expositions of it).