On 9/16/11, m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > Remember, even among those who studied, a) half of them were in the bottom > of their class, and b) too many are True Believers in the latest > programming (not the P word!) paradigm; y'know, recursion is the answer to > *everything*, or OO, or.... Part of the problem is sometimes otherwise intelligent customers who heard of the latest buzzword be it XML/Ruby/Web 2.0/HTML5 start demanding that you use it for their application regardless of whether it's relevant or if they really know what it is about . If you try to educate them any other way, they start thinking you're outdated. On top of that, sometimes you have to work with people who are True Believers or Purists...