TITLE: Promotion from Tweet to Blog Entry
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: July 13, 2009  4:47 PM
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A couple of weeks ago, I quoted Glenn Vanderburg as my
<A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2009-06.html#e2009-06-25T21_48_30.htm">
   Tweet of the Day</A>.
Now he has made his tweet the set-up line in a full-blown
blog entry,
<A HREF="http://www.vanderburg.org/Blog/Software/Development/sharp_and_blunt.rdoc">
   Sharp vs. Blunt Instruments</A>:

<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
Weak developers will move heaven and earth to do the
wrong thing.  You can't limit the damage they do by
giving them less powerful tools.  They'll just swing
the blunt tools harder.
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

I still agree with the sentiment, as well as the bigger
point:  Give people powerful tools, teach them what you
can, and let them create.  The best programmers will do
amazing things; the rest will be none the worse off.
If you help to create a culture that values learning
and encourages responsibility for others, you may even
find some of the weak growing into amazing programmers,
too.
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