On Oct 18, 2007, at 5:05 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote:

> maintainability is quite important.

One of the things we've run into is limits to growth.  If you
use you own home-grown libraries or home-modified libraries,
you can never hire anyone who knows anything about them, and
anyone you DO hire will have to go through a longer "training"
period trying to learn what your libraries do.  They'll probably
never figure out all the wonderful nuances that you put in when
you wrote it, and they might as well be using some similar standard
library.  Worse, not fully understanding the library, they may add
bugs.  If you had used the "XYZ C library for PICs" (from the
well known XYZ compiler company), you could just advertise for
someone familiar with that library.

BillW
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