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From: salomon@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Salomon)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: When all you have is a hammer ...
Message-ID: <1990Oct13.192729.2630@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 13 Oct 90 19:27:29 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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I am seeking a reference.  I would like to know who was the first to
say in print "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a
nail," and where he said it.  The statement was made in a comparison of
programming languages to tools, in support of the argument that we need
many different programming languages, rather than a single
general-purpose programming language.

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Dan Salomon -- salomon@ccu.UManitoba.CA