I don't think there's an "in-group" of frat-bro programmers who actually talk like this in real life. Everyone I've met has just been doing it as a joke. At lea

I don't think there's an "in-group" of frat-bro programmers who actually talk like this in real life. Everyone I've met has just been doing it as a joke. At least, this seems very common in the Ruby/Rails community. There's a whole ton of weird gem names, and people just being silly in general [1]. And it's not a recent [2] thing [3], by any means. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbda1PpQmAk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbda1PpQmAk [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_... (P.S. TIL about `$ fortune | cowsay -f head-in`. Hahaha I hadn't seen that before.)