There's a lot of reasons not to reinvent the wheel here.

Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it.

Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it.

A season's still a season. Let's not reinvent the wheel. We're starting this year with the same guys and the same attitude we did the year before, and the year before that.

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.