The programmers that has been around for a while sooner or later starts to notice a pattern.
I remember some salesperson asking if we shouldn't start using XML (or some other thing he had heard, think it was XML). Not sure where he heard it but it made absolutely no sence whatsoever. We were already using XML in the backend talking to others backend services but I was trying my best to get away from it... But there was no reason he would even know what XML is. He hardly knew how to use a computer to browse the web at the time.
Whatever is popular at the moment has to be used or you aren't hip and not following the times.
We had a consultant try and sell us XML databases as something we had to start working on at once.
When I asked them what the advantage was, and how it dealt with a few common circumstances they basically stuttered to a stop. It was very dissapointing.
I remember some salesperson asking if we shouldn't start using XML (or some other thing he had heard, think it was XML). Not sure where he heard it but it made absolutely no sence whatsoever. We were already using XML in the backend talking to others backend services but I was trying my best to get away from it... But there was no reason he would even know what XML is. He hardly knew how to use a computer to browse the web at the time.
Whatever is popular at the moment has to be used or you aren't hip and not following the times.