Very true. The fact is, even very intelligent people tend to stick with ideas that were popular as they &#x27;grew&#x27; into their position.<p>Programming is young, but if you look at the history of more developed fields such as physics and mathematics, there is a very long history of extremely respected scientists out right rejecting new theories for being outlandish and ridiculous that we now accept as the bedrock of scientific theory.<p>The truth is, just as with physics and mathematics, in computer science new ideas do form, but older generations rarely adapt, and it&#x27;s only with death of the old, and the growth of a new generation do ideas become accepted.