Compare to: "If you can copy-paste from a Stack-overflow answer, is it controversial to say that copy-pasting is more efficient than reading through documentation and/or learning how to use a new library?"
Compare to: "If you can copy-paste from a Stack-overflow answer, is it controversial to say that copy-pasting is more efficient than reading through documentation and/or learning how to use a new library?"
If I understand the code and it does exactly what I need, should I type the whole thing out rather than copy-pasting? Sounds like a waste of time to me.