<P> Software developer José M. Gilgado has written that the law is still relevant in the 21st century and is highly applicable to software development . Many times software developers, he observed, "tend to use the same known tools to do a completely new different project with new constraints". He blamed this on "the comfort zone state where you don't change anything to avoid risk . The problem with using the same tools every time you can is that you don't have enough arguments to make a choice because you have nothing to compare to and is limiting your knowledge ." The solution is "to keep looking for the best possible choice, even if we aren't very familiar with it". This includes using a computer language with which one is unfamiliar . He noted that the product RubyMotion enables developers to "wrap" unknown computer languages in a familiar computer language and thus avoid having to learn them . But Gilgado found this approach inadvisable, because it reinforces the habit of avoiding new tools . </P> <P> One observer stated in 2016 that the law of the instrument may be "the least discussed law when talking about education", but is "the most important to warn for in educational discussions". He asked: "How many times do you read: this tool will change everything in education? We know that it won't, but most of the time the person expressing this is really convinced of his hammer ." Some educators say: "let's teach all children how to code". </P> <P> Other forms of narrow - minded instrumentalism include: déformation professionnelle, a French term for "looking at things from the point of view of one's profession", and regulatory capture, the tendency for regulators to look at things from the point of view of the profession they are regulating . </P>

When all you have is a hammer everything is a nail