Luke wrote:
I can't say I've ever used a framework.
I like to be in control of all of my code, plus it's much more satisfying
when you write everything yourself (I've found anyway)...
If I want to make use of existing code, I rather have a good
understanding and a grasp of the philosophy behind it. It is all about
decisions anyway, so I better know why than just think 'whatever' or 'I
don't care'.
Therefore I just make use of libraries. Most of it is my own code, some
are just variations on existing code and I tweaked it to my needs (or
philosophy).
Frameworks are nice. But I've never seen any other construction work in
other fields making use of frameworks without customizing it over and
over again. When people build a house, they can use ready-built parts
etc. But when that house is finished, it doesn't need any backwards
compatability. Housing has a lot of 'standards' and regulations or best
practises. But they never use another framework exactly the same way as
they did before.
You can say 'Software ain't the same as housing'. Correct. But there are
similarities however that makes you think about what is a good practise
and what not.
If you have a function and it works, but it is old code, you can still
reuse it, modify it and apply it. That doesn't make a need for putting
the modified version back into your old project, just for the sake of
'maintainance'.
If I would be in the business of building houses, I would have to use
pipes, cut them off, tweak them here and there to make them fit etc.
That doesn't make a need for cut them all off already and tweak them for
an older project, or next projects to come. No?
I rather have a good supply of small, workable, understandable pieces of
code that could make up for a framework, but doesn't.
I don't want a house that is built on top of a factory framework with a
lot of parts that makes it cloggy and won't be used at all.
That is just my idea of why I use a library, a toolkit, rather than
frameworks that are oversized most of the time.
--
Aschwin Wesselius
/'What you would like to be done to you, do that to the other....'/
