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Own programming language, own templating engine - looks like NIH syndrome. But with 37signals' developers they could afford it.

Own programming language

Is coffeescript from 37Signals? I thought it was written by Jeremy Ashkenas at DocumentCloud?

The trick with NIH syndrome is balancing, as with any other syndrom. Once you know about it, you can also detect situations where it's worthy rolling your own (GitHub's Resque is another successful example of that).

I agree that HIN is not always bad, Joel has good article about this: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000007.html

Is HIN a reinvention of NIH? :-)

It's Yoda's version of NIH.

when Forth programmers are not reuse code I believe it should be called HIN :)

Touche!

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