Indicators and traction…

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 09/23/2015 11:45 AM, John Colvin wrote:
>
> I think you're misinterpreting some of these people. Some will be
> following fashions, but many will be simply not wanting to put time and
> effort in to something that they're not convinced is going to work out
> in the long run.

That amounts to the same thing, just indirectly: It's a myopic approach 
that involves a failure to understand the basic dynamics of plain old 
self-fulfilling prophecies:

"Things succeed/fail BECAUSE people LIKE ME use it or pass on it. 
Therefore, we should make that choice based on whether it's WORTHY. 
Because if instead, we base it on whether we think OTHER people 
will/won't use it (ESPECIALLY if THOSE people are ALSO going to be 
choosing based on the same 'what is everyone else going to pick?' 
crystal ball), then we're all chasing each other's tails and the result 
boils down to randomness (at best) or more likely, becomes predominantly 
influenced by superficial factors and biased parties."

It's a very, very basic line of logic, especially for people in a 
profession that's so fundamentally rooted in exactly such logical reasoning.