[texhax] Ideas/lists of developer libraries of TeX Macros?

[Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)]

Donald Arseneau wrote:

> I don't see a point in doing plain TeX hackery except for
> reinventing wheels.
>
> Use LaTeX, or ConTeXt, or even eplain.

Why ?  Why deny yourself the satisfaction of solving
a difficult problem and merely recycle other's ideas ?
What is the intellectual satisfaction in that ?

Philip Taylor