True, one of the other aspects in the usefulness of tools is the ability to scale down. But that's probably the center of my argument and it's probaby tangential to the concept of "silver bullet". If a tool that's able to scale up, down, left and right is essentially a silver bullet, so if silver bullets in software are a chimera, aren't we the ones that are bad at labeling those tools?
I quote myself here:
Are we software developers simply bad at making choices for a thousand different reasons?
I should have added: "If so, does it matter, if the choice is good enough?"
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True, one of the other aspects in the usefulness of tools is the ability to scale down. But that's probably the center of my argument and it's probaby tangential to the concept of "silver bullet". If a tool that's able to scale up, down, left and right is essentially a silver bullet, so if silver bullets in software are a chimera, aren't we the ones that are bad at labeling those tools?
I quote myself here:
I should have added: "If so, does it matter, if the choice is good enough?"