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?

All I know about Perl is that its syntax is disgusting, Perl haskers claim to be a group on their own, and that it's good with strings. I should probably take a look at it sometime; as they say, being a good programmer is about having knowledge about everything, even platforms you will never use.