Money quote: > Apparently it was inconceivable that there might be two right ways to do something. And he's speaking to a Perl audience. I think that tribali

Money quote: > Apparently it was inconceivable that there might be two right ways to do something. And he's speaking to a Perl audience. I think that tribalism is a pretty good term to describe the phenomenon. When you start taking something as part of your identity (be it programming languages or sports teams or bands), you wrap your ego up in it. The result is that every statement about your tribe, or another tribe, becomes a value statement, regardless of how objective it should be.