Hi all!
Am a bit mystified here! about the radio-silence to this
thread or, for that matter, to the [[meta:wikitopics]] [1] document
itself.
From wikipedia: [2]
REINVENTING THE SQUARE WHEEL is the
practice of unnecessarily engineering artifacts that provide
functionality already provided by existing standard artifacts
(reinventing the wheel) and ending up with a worse result than the
standard (a square wheel [3]). This is an anti-pattern [4] which occurs
when the engineer is unaware or contemptuous of the standard solution or
does not understand the problem or the standard solution sufficiently to
avoid problems overcome by the standard.
Thanks !
-jmc
Links:
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[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitopics
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinvent_the_wheel#Related_phrases
[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_wheel
[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern