Programmers that need a lot of "Outside Help" - Is this bad?

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Published on 2011-03-09T05:58:46Z Indexed on 2011/03/09 8:18 UTC
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Does anyone else think it's kind of tacky or poor practice when programmers use an unusual amount of libraries/frameworks to accomplish certain tasks? I'm working with someone on a relatively simple programming project involving geolocation queries. The guy seems like an amateur to me. For the server software, this guy used Python, Django, and a bunch of other crazy libraries ("PostGIS + gdal, geoip, and a few other spatial libraries" he writes) to create it. He wrote the entire program in one method (in views.py, nonetheless facepalm), and it's almost unreadable.

Is this bad? Does anyone else think that this is really tacky and amateurish? Am I the only minimalist out there these days?

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