On Saturday, 22 April 2017 at 08:30:03 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
Terms such as Pythonista, Rubyist, Rustacean, Gopher, etc. are
terms of tribalism and exclusion. They are attempts to ensure
people claiming membership of the tribe reject being polyglot
by pressuring them to eschew all other languages.
A good programmer can work professionally with a number of
languages, the psychology of programming people have data
supporting this theory – if the languages have different
computational models.
Agreed. No need to praise your own group while ridiculing others.
These are programming languages, not text editors.
