I didn't know where I last read it, it got stuck in my head. I
wrote:
[...] doesn't mean
that one must turn the advantages into disadvantages and start
hammering screws because we love hammers.
I forget to be careful with metaphors, I realize that some must
be emotionally loaded and don't really help in debating since
they can be used either way and are astranged from reason.
(Hahaha, nothing more dangerous than landing on a new
forum/community
without tip toeing, ohh the rush of excitement!!)
--jm
On Tuesday, 21 February 2012 at 16:49:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 2/21/12 10:39 AM, foobar wrote:
...
To quote a classic:
made generic. You seem to prove the old saying that when all
you have
is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
...
Andrei