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Exactly! I'm frankly not sure how “silver bullet” came to mean a general solution…
by rue 15y ago
Exactly! I'm frankly not sure how “silver bullet” came to mean a general solution…
- freshhawk 15y agoI always thought that it was because in the metaphor the "werewolf" was "programming is hard". There is no silver bullet to kill the "I have to make trade-offs as this gets more complex!" monster. I could be wrong, I have no reference or even a memory of learning this so I have either forgotten or I just made this up.