[nix23]

>since we're not talking about programming

Has nothing todo with programming, a real hammer is better as the backside of an axe. A Specialized Knife is better then a Swiss-Pocket Knife. One tool for one job but make that job perfect.

[falcolas]

Ever see a framer’s axe? It’s one part axe, one part hammer. It’s perfect for framers - they love it. It’s one tool which lets them chop, modify, remove nails, hammer in nails, whatever they need to do, without having to carry 4-5 different tools.

The idea that a specialized tool is always better than a multi-tasking tool is simply not true. One must only look at the popularity and utility of leatherman multi-tools to see this to be true.

Even in programming circles, one needs only to look at how many options there are for ‘ls’ to see that “one tool for one purpose” is not always the best thing.

[nix23]

>The idea that a specialized tool is always better than a multi-tasking tool is simply not true.

It is hence the name specialized, but if you have to live with a all-round tool then that whats you have.

>one needs only to look at how many options there are for ‘ls’ to see that “one tool for one purpose” is not always the best thing.

The gnu or the bsd one ;)