Comment Re:what you need them for? (Score 1) 306
I couldn't agree more. Frameworks are important for the same reason standard libraries are important. For example, reading someone else's code without libraries they write a routine to sort strings. Great. And then the next guy comes along and calls it, expecting it to sort his strings, but the routine does a case insensitive sort, which isn't what the 2nd programmer wanted. Of course he could have read and analyzed the whole routine before using it, but having a library allows both programmers to have access to a string sort that they don't have to analyze to make sure it really is a sort, and can reuse it.
Frameworks are much the same way. Often without them I find code from a previous programmer, and I think what the hell was he thinking and why is he doing this. Or doing it this way. A framework removes most of the useless code setting up and tearing down basic things and does so in a consistent manner. If I see he's overriding some standard function, I can assume there is probably a reason why it's been overridden.