I think reinventing the wheel has its place. It has two benefits:
1) You get a better grasp of how the wheel works.
2) You may invent a better wheel.
Of course, that's not to say that I think everyone should start re-writing everything they've ever programmed from scratch, but if we never tried anything new we'd still be using big stone wheels (The Flintstones cartoon comes to mind).
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2) You may invent a better wheel.
Of course, that's not to say that I think everyone should start re-writing everything they've ever programmed from scratch, but if we never tried anything new we'd still be using big stone wheels (The Flintstones cartoon comes to mind).