use Perl

• Reinventing the wheel (Score:2)

  by ziggy (25)

  Reinventing Perl Arrays? That's nothing. When I was a wee lad, we had to reinvent the bit every morning before breakfast, and reinvent symbol tables every night before supper. And if we were really lucky, we'd only get beaten five times instead of the usual twenty.

  Seriously though, a former colleague of mine had a better horror story. It went something like this:

  $index = "";
  $element_count = $#array + 1;
  open(TEMP, ">temp.file");
  for( $index = 0; $index < $element_count; $i++) {
      print
• Reinventing wheels (Score:2)

  by drhyde (1683)

  I reinvented hashes in Java. I didn't know that they already existed in the standard library, so wrote my own, which was hideously inefficient as it was just two parallel arrays of keys and values.