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Article #1715When all you have is a hammer ...
From: Dan Salomon
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 1990 19:27
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 1990 19:27
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I am seeking a reference. I would like to know who was the first to say in print "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail," and where he said it. The statement was made in a comparison of programming languages to tools, in support of the argument that we need many different programming languages, rather than a single general-purpose programming language. -- Dan Salomon -- salomon@ccu.UManitoba.CA
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!salomon From: salomon@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Salomon) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: When all you have is a hammer ... Message-ID: <1990Oct13.192729.2630@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 13 Oct 90 19:27:29 GMT Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Lines: 10