reinventing the wheel

/phrawglleus/, I feel the urge to reinvent the wheel in everything that I do. How can I get out of this mentality?

Try a language like Perl or Python or Ruby where all the existing wheels are readily available.

I tend to reinvent the wheel a lot when I program in C. That's because reinventing a small subset of the wheel is sometimes better than dependency hell and having more ancient wheel than you'll ever need.