Why I often implement things from scratch

Joe Armstrong - noreply@blogger.com (Joe Armstrong) - September 28, 2006

Once upon a time there was an Erlang programmer who needed an FTP server running on one of the hosts in a private network. In fact he didn’t need an FTP server, he just needed to transfer files between a central server and his client machine, but he thought that he needed an FTP server to do this.

He searched for FTP servers, and indeed found several of them. They had to be free of course,



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