Leveraging Existing Code: APIs, Libraries, and Open-Source Projects
Vinay Trivedi · Apress eBooks · 2019
Imagine how much more slowly society would have developed if no one could leverage the inventions of others to design new products. Using others’ innovations for new discoveries is crucial. Maybe a drug developed for one disease can be adapted to cure another. Perhaps flexible glass created for more durable dishware can be used to make unbreakable cell phone screens. We continuously search for the next best thing, and we cannot expect to find it if we always begin from scratch.