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Comment by regularfry

9 years ago

In my experience you can classify people into two herds: those who, when faced with a problem, solve it directly; and those who, faced with the same problem, try to fit it to the tools they want to use. I like to think this is a maturity question, but I can't think I've actually seen someone make the transition from the latter to the former type.

> those who, when faced with a problem, solve it directly

I think you mean "use the tools they already know".

> those who, faced with the same problem, try to fit it to the tools they want to use

I think you mean "use the correct tools for the job".

> I like to think this is a maturity question

It is, but the direction of maturity is from the first case to the second.