On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:35:03 -0300, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Jim Henderson escribió:
>> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:48:26 -0500, Warp wrote:
>>> Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>>> I spent several hours implementing a piece of technology
>>>   It sounded to me like you reinvented prolog...
>> 
>> Sometimes, reimplementing something is the best way to learn - even if
>> you didn't know it existed before.
> 
> Yeah, like how VirtualDub author wrote a PNG encoder *and* a deflate
> compressor instead of using libpng and zlib just to learn about it.

Yup. :-)

> "It was quite an educational experience to write a fast sliding window
> compressor."

That sort of thing usually is.  Especially if implemented from scratch.

> Oh, and to cut on library dependencies too :)

That'd be another benefit. :-)

Jim

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