Me: What can I do if I need to try to hack an existing (not self-made) PHP library?
Sensei: Patience.
Me: What can I do if I do not have the patience?
Sensei: How long have you been coding?
Me: 10 years… but why?
Sensei: Sit on the floor, close your eyes and try to think about the last 10 years.
Me: About the beginning?
Sensei: If you have a good picture in your memory about the first 3 days of the first lf-made program then try to remember the first time when you had to hack that code. Me: Oh yes. I could do that.
Sensei: Was that your code?
Me: Yes.
Sensei: Was it easy to read? Did you remember some lines of it?
Me: Nope.
Sensei: Why did you hack that?
Me: Thanks Sensei… I will think of these.