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Another reason seems to be the "buddy effect". Some people are afraid to be the first penguin in the water because of the hungry walruses. So they wait until a penguin gets hungry enough to go in after fish, and if it returns, others follow. That story is a cultural metaphor for companies that have badgered their employees into "do only your job inside the box I give you" thinking. These types wait until the pilot implementors or pioneers come back, then get their code or pick their brains and do only that. <offtopic>I see a lot of that these days as the layoff disease spreads and the panic goes deeper. Of course, that kind of thinking might be said to lead to conditions where a shrinking market share is inevitable, but that also might be wrong. It depends on how one views the notion that well-focused employees are productive employees. Both ends of the argument are right and not mutually exclusive depending on conditions. Yet, failing to know how to pick the right API for the job, worse, failing to be aware there are options seems to be inefficient in the first case and not survival-oriented in the second. It is very hard to fix a culture that is inward-facing out of fear because the typical response is to pretend to superiority as a means of masking the failure to understand the situation.</offtopic> len -----Original Message----- From: david.hunter@m... [mailto:david.hunter@m...] I think a lot of programmers, who aren't XML gurus, just got used to the fact that "this is the way you work with XML". I've even heard people referring to an XML document as "a DOM", which shows how deep the confusion can go.
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