In the egalitarian listserv world that I frequent, programmers generally are extremely helpful, more patient than necessary, and write remarkably good prose. P

In the egalitarian listserv world that I frequent, programmers generally are extremely helpful, more patient than necessary, and write remarkably good prose. Perhaps because jerks like to comment on blogs because doing so doesn't have ramifications in a repuation based ecosystem in which there is less asymmetry. It is easy and safe to bad mouth the gods, not so in the assembly...