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by noblethrasher
4460 days ago
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I think one of the reasons for NIH is that, unlike mathematical theorems, programs are not customarily explicit about the domain over which they hold and therefore are just pseudo-theorems. The few programs that do have that explicitness, such as compilers and small UNIX utilities, tend not to get reinvented. Also, the domain can become obsolete (e.g. ascii vs utf8 or unstructured text vs XML). Thus, NIH may really just be a want of a theorem (sometimes merely a stronger one). |
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