You just assumed that everyone builds competitive software. A lot of folks need to write code for scripting or to analyze data.. whatever. I don't care if anyone else can do it just as fast. Also, I can't imagine someone writing something from scratch in Common Lisp faster than I can slap some components together, solve a problem, and move on.
With that in mind, I'm a huge proponent of doing everything yourself IF you have the time. This is the Forth philosophy that allows you to eliminate gobs of garbage code, reduce bugs, and maintain the code better long term.
With that in mind, I'm a huge proponent of doing everything yourself IF you have the time. This is the Forth philosophy that allows you to eliminate gobs of garbage code, reduce bugs, and maintain the code better long term.