>Yes, I'd say you are correct. But that doesn't mean that the wisdom comes all at once to everyone involved.
>History is replete with examples (practically EVERY theory, actually) of mainly non-believers who eventually become believers. People have their own yardsticks/pressures/reasons for adopting a theory, only finally doing so when they are "ready". Many, in fact, failed to convince fellows in their own generations, only to have their work found a decade or century or two later and have it form the basis of significant innovation.

We are talking here about the relative popularity of a niche market database programming language NOT the invention of the atomic bomb NOR the discovery that the earth revolves around the sun.

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