[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-02-07 02:12, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <keusk1$54t$1 at iltempo.update.uu.se>,
> 	Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>> On 2013-02-06 04:34, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> Maybe the old hammer/nail analogy is not as good as most people think.
>>
>> Me thinks you missed the point of the hammer/nail analogy.
>> If you only have *a hammer*, then every problem looks like a nail. As
>> soon as you even have several hammers, you are no longer inside the
>> scope of the analogy. Stop having several tools... :-)
>>
>> If you only have one hammer, you will use it to drive all nails. Believe
>> me...
>
> Oh, I understand that.  Most people who look in my toolbox ask why
> I have so many hammers.  Some can understand 2 or even 3 of them,
> but a dozen!
>
> It stretches the analogy.  Even people who know a hammer isn't for
> screws think 1 hammer any nail.  But even that isn't really correct.
> It all comes back to the right tool for the job and even in tasks
> most people lthink are simple choosing the right tool might be
> harder than they think.  And that goes triple with computers.

Indeed. And I believe that is the sentiment of the analogy. You should 
have several tools, be proficient with all of them, and use the right 
tool for the job at hand.

Someone is really an idiot, if they only have one hammer, and they use 
that for any problem.

	Johnny

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