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It's also partly the case of "everything looks like a nail". I personally feel that we are problem solvers first, and "programmers" second. So using a tool is a perfectly valid way to solve a problem. In fact, it works towards one of our key programming tenets of "reusability".

As an interesting aside to that; I have recently worked with a very peculiar older developer (his age isn't related, btw). He lives, and breathes the entire Microsoft stack. Knows all the buzzwords, configs, arcane incantations, etc. Whatever problem he comes across, his first response is "write a C# program". He has riddled our source control with arbitrary little executables, sitting next to *.pdb and app.config files.

Luckily, he doesn't work on our backend which runs on AIX (and we haven't pioneered trying Mono on it, yet).