Sorry for you then. Living in such a boring world, and what a disdain-full answer that makes my point. I have add my share of conferences technical or about FO

Sorry for you then. Living in such a boring world, and what a disdain-full answer that makes my point. I have add my share of conferences technical or about FOSS. And I met peoples with a lot of passion ... and code delivered. You probably use their software daily. I have been using more than 13 langages ranking from C to forth, matlab, vhdl, spice, python, perl and php. There are definitively cultures associated with languages and beliefs. Perl community is thinking coding is like speaking/writing a foreign language; Ruby about you IQ and technical skills are totally correlated with how nice your apple laptop looks like and how expensive it is. They are our hipsters (troll); Python secretly hides a sect hating braces and everything that looks like C and believe C coder can't make safe thread code, malloc, correct string handling. And they hate braces. for c++ coder referring to linus torvalds rant would be the spirit. Java coder believe in the utltimate safe portable VM and the power of GoF. And think people look the wrong way; Haskell thinks of themselves as alchemists loving to use obscure terms coined by an hallucinated metaphyscian priest that said ET must exists and that no one will notice. They still laugh of their ultimate joke; And C coders think that only them are the pure programmer, the only one that can see the matrix between the purity of abstraction and the undetermination of hardware/norms due to the imperfection of the humans. But, with their discipline that is above the norm (no noob accepted) they can fight the God of Entropy FORTRAN coder think that computers are a pain and would just like to have exact figures much more than nice looking interface and wonder when a correct intuitive language will appear (<--- My sect) They appear maybe because for each language comes a practical field of use and that one computer language cannot fill all the needs. The need for correction and exactitude in science conflicts with the "ease of use" of numbers. The need for having cheap workforce conflicts with efficient cheap to maintain code; The need for preventing embezzlement (origin of SQL) conflicts with creative accountability; At one moment, at my opinion C is like a middle age corporation. Trying to promote a one best way of CS that always boil down to C. C community maybe "professional" as opposed to "enthusiasts". But I think it does not always serve them. And I do not think that recognizing Computer Science is a peaceful uniform land, but an arena full of organic entities in conflicts with logical distinct rationalities for the same resources. In short, I have the write to mock other cultures.