| And then one day the military, say, realize they now have a bunch of useless "military jets" built on top of a "passenger airplane framework". The He 111 started out as a civilian plane, then became a bomber. But to be fair, it was always a bomber masquerading as a civilian plane. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_111 Which is all fine, if it does the job for you, but you're not designing the airplane, anymore than microwaving TV lunch is cooking. I don't think this is a very good analogy at all, unless it comes to something like App Engine or Heroku, and I'm not sure even then. I know when Rails came out the hype was so huge, that everyone believed they and their dog can write big complex web apps. Nope. The only result of that is a bunch of people making beginner mistakes and getting "pwned" all over the web. The smart move would've been to see this coming, then intervene, thus cementing that big huge groundswell of mindshare with better informed members of the community as a result. The thing is, we programmers are more apt to act like old-time barnstormers and solemnly shake our heads at the pilot who stalled and crashed, than to invent stick shakers and automated stall warnings. |