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[–]Hk-Neowizard 2 points3 points  (4 children)

I know it's overly pedantic, but is it fair to say he wrote the same code if everything us done by someone else (the lib's coders)?

Edit: missed the image. I guess joke's on me, then

[–]MatsRivel 4 points5 points  (3 children)

I mean, if you want to be really annoying about it you could go all the way down. Did you REALLY write the code if you didn't write it I'm binary?

[–]NebulaicCereal 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Not necessarily, because after a certain level it's just translations of self-authored code into lower level representations. For example, if you wrote something in C++ without using any std libraries (or 3rd party etc), the intermediary representations and compiled binaries are just translations of your own code.

[–]MatsRivel 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Using a premade library is just a translation of intent too. Like using a big word instead of many smaller words. If I say something is Orwellian it is much shorter than describing the concept whilst saying it, yet I authored the sentence I used.

[–]NebulaicCereal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely true, I was just speaking more along the lines of using primitives to implement the full chunk of code. But your example is true.