>Folks:
>
>Is it just me, or do you people think it's easier/faster to
>just write your own code than to try and figure out
>what another programmer is doing in his/her programs?
>
>I'm sure all of us here are well aware of "programming style."
>I've seen "code that matches my way of thinking," and
>"code that could _easily_ win 'The Obfuscated C programming
>Contest' -- HANDS DOWN! :^) -- held on the Usenet every year.
>
>Fortunately, a friend of mine and I have replaced some dewd that
>seems to think like we do, so reading his code isn't really all that
>difficult; however, it is very time consuming! What do you people
>think? Anyone else out there been/going through this? :^)
>
>Randall

It depends:) Generally for me it's easier/faster to read/write/understand my own code. Sometimes I simply don't understand what OPC (other people's code) is doing just because it's awfull. If it's not awfull code for the job then readability isn't much of a concern (mostly personal it's).
If I know the writer and 'sense' the code is already a master piece I try to understand the code just as a 'training' for myself (and might use it w/o trying to understand:)
Cetin