>Picking the right tool for the right job will always be a problem to solve My experience has been that this is a very challenging problem. Business leaders co

>Picking the right tool for the right job will always be a problem to solve My experience has been that this is a very challenging problem. Business leaders consistently apply pressure for faster results (rightly so!) which means that technology leaders will also be under pressure to deliver faster results. Tools at the highest level of abstraction (like the various "declarative programming" app builders) trade away power and flexibility in return for simplicity. The sales teams that sell these tools then inevitably highlight the speed and gloss over the trade off that's being made. The message that buyers (business and tech execs) hear is that a tool can solve problems faster. That is often true when the tool is being applied to a problem for which it's suited and can be disastrously incorrect when it's applied to a problem it's not suited to. My experience is that the promise of "faster" often drowns out the voices warning that a tool is being applied to the wrong kind of problem.