"The perl community was pretty abrasive when I first looked in to it, the PHP community was the opposite so I ended up programming a large amount of stuff in PH

"The perl community was pretty abrasive when I first looked in to it, the PHP community was the opposite so I ended up programming a large amount of stuff in PHP." Interesting how the "feel" of a community dictates the choice of language. I thought I'd be immune to this effect after programming for 15 years but I recently chose not to use Clojure on an (eventually to be opensourced) project because of the "dumb fanboi" tone of a part of its community.(eg: http://www.bestinclass.dk/index.php/2009/10/python-vs-clojure-reloaded/ http://www.bestinclass.dk/index.php/2009/10/python-vs-clojur... HN reaction: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=881642 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=881642). I chose to use Haskell instead (I like the "vibe" of its mailing lists and irc and blog posts and so on) and have been feeling a smidgen guilty about dismissing Clojure (which I think is really nice - I admire Rich Hickey's tech skills and design sensibility) for its community's stridency. Seems I am not alone in my weirdness!