What's more is that it prevents learning. I was talking with friend of mine the other day about an idea to set up a sqlite database with a html/css/javascript front end in order to organize all the word documents and spreadsheets that currently are haphazardly tossed onto a shared drive at work.

He pointed out that that's basically a content management system, and I realized that up until that point I assumed I was the first person to ever think about this problem. Now I have a bunch of people's code to read and learn from.