Meta: The fact that we're having this conversation all the times says something about our field. I'm just not sure what. How long did it it take carpentry to g

Meta: The fact that we're having this conversation all the times says something about our field. I'm just not sure what. How long did it it take carpentry to get past the great debate between "hammer vs screwdriver" ? Will anyone ever refer to the saw as a "boring" way to chop wood ? Should there be resume screenings for gardeners with "x years of experience with the acme showel" ? Would the world be a worst place if you could just use a decent language with a reaonnable GUI library to store bits in a working DB ? (None of which I'm probably skilled enough to build...) Maybe we would have to write software that actually works for a living, and we would be played much less.