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I have a Hammer! Show me them Nails!

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Its part of the human condition - the desire to solve all the problems you encounter with the tools that you currently have.  Its not necessarily a bad thing - when Goongrah was being attacked by the Bear in the days of yore, he defended himself with the club he was carrying, since saying " Yo Mr. Bear.  Hang on whilst i go fetch my spear from yonder cave.  And by the way, Ugh "  wasn't really an option. But ye gods, has this ever evolved into some remarkable insanity, especially in The World Of Development.  Everything, but everything needs to be done using the same tools.  People will go out of their way, and twist themselves into knots to retrofit all their problems to their one solution.  Take databases for example - till fairly recently people had two hammers (if that) - that they could use MySQL / PostgreSQL / Oracle for their persistence needs, and memcache for their key-value store.  And to be serious, some of the more devout ones...