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For me, the blue part was their insistence that the opinions of individuals must not matter, the interview must be impersonal, the enterprise will work as it *ought* too instead of the way it does; our five patterns work in EVERY situation. And so on. Sort of a Taliban design: our way or the highway. Very depressing stuff. I have to admit to having been that young once too. :-) I suppose they will sell lots of books, sort of like the extreme thing. We will get the programmers who buy into this, and hold their heads under water until they realize they can't hold their breaths until it all goes their way. Some turn rather blue. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Eric Bohlman [mailto:ebohlman@e...] Er, I think it's rather "gold," as in the classic "golden hammer" antipattern. It's just a natural human tendency to want to have a few, or even a single, mental model(s) that encompass as much of reality as possible.
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