[101914]

Opinion: Some not so quietly; in any case, most of them are not worth reusing. But there are exceptions, e.g., stralloc.h

Opinion: Personally, because I strive to learn more than to be "productive", I prefer languages that force the author to write her own libraries. As I see it, the alternative is languages that discourage this, effectively coercing the author to use other people's libraries, the quality over which she has no control.

Opinion: For me, the bad part is that there are so many poorly thought out C functions in the wild (even including the "standard" ones); the good part is that the C language encourages authors to write their own libraries.

Given the choice, I still prefer assembly to C. I guess this is because I prefer to write small programs; perhaps I am not smart enough to write large ones.

[chinpokomon]

Are you not making an assumption about your own code then? The strength of open software is that you don't have to rely on one person to have solved everything. I consider myself to be a good developer, better than most for some areas, but I know there are others who have written better code for other areas.

I prefer not to reinvent the wheel when I know my implementation won't be any better, or if I were able to make a better wheel, that will be time spent that I wasn't reinventing the carriage.