Len
>>I've occasionally worked on projects where the development tool was chosen only on its merits, only to run into problems because the downside of the tools wasn't thoroughly looked into.<<
Amen. Scientific method actually requires that "negatives" and disproofs are much more important than positive examples. That something happens 100000 times is not a proof that it will always happen, whereas if you can find one example where it does not happen, you have disproven it and can move on. So you are better off looking for negatives to narrow your search. IMHO.
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
