Re: Ladders (was Re: Obama to meet the pope on 10 July)

In <h2egsp$go5$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

cryptoguy <treifamily@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nice work. But I could solve it even faster by googling
WORD LADDER SOFTWARE

Where's the fun in that? Or the challenge? Or the mental exercise?

One of those modern rules of software development that seems to have
passed you by is 'Reuse Code".

I've reused plenty of code. But potential employers aren't going
to want to hear how much of other people's code I've reused recently;
they're going to want to hear how much code I've written recently.

No -- they want to know about projects completed. And if they're
completed by writing code, instead of (re)using libraries, then they don't
want you, since you're doing it wrong.

Writing new code is always a last resort. Understanding how to use
existing libraries is how new projects are completed in the real world.

At a recent used book sale, I bought a book of logic problems. I'm
sure the fastest way to "solve" them would be to turn directly to
the answers in the back. But I'm not going to solve them that way.
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