[Tfug] Tfug] *Way* OT: Swamp c

[johngalt]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bexley Hall" <>
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Tfug] *Way* OT: Swamp c


>
> --- George Cohn <gwcohn at simplybits.net> wrote:
>
>> Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
>> > I was
>> > poking fun at the Linux zealot for whom their OS
>> is the solution
>> > to every problem in the world. It is their
>> religion, and it
>> > applies to every life situation.
>>
>> An analogy is to a carpenter, everything looks like
>> a nail!  ;-)
>
> I think it's more a case of said carpenter never
> having been exposed to a building material other
> than *wood*!  :<
>
> Most people work in very narrow application domains
> and, as such, aren't exposed to the constraints
> and capabilities of other domains.  So, they
> tend to think that everything *must* be done with
> their set of "tools", etc.

This is oh-so-true. It is also at times oh-so-absurd.

To me, the epitome of this is where liberal arts trained "journalists", or 
rather people in the media try to cover or explain events, technical or 
otherwise.

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