Red Flags in a programmer

You know you might be dealing with a `coder' when he/she says:

I'd rather not reinvent the wheel

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global state considered helpful for when the problem is best modelled with a state machine. emulation is an obvious example - you could write a purely functional CPU (after all you don't need state to have TC) but you'd just be designing something labyrinthine and inefficient which offers no advantages over just having state.