I'm a reasonably hard-core XEmacs user and I'm perfectly willing to admit that it's just stubbornness (and the fact that it's the same on all of the platforms t

I'm a reasonably hard-core XEmacs user and I'm perfectly willing to admit that it's just stubbornness (and the fact that it's the same on all of the platforms that I develop on). The "strength" argument hasn't been true for some time. I don't think it says much about me being a good or bad developer. I think the question is more, "When is stubbornness useful"? I'm pedantic about Getting Things Right. That works for and against me. A lot of these sorts of blogs / essays tend to assume that good programmers are interchangeable. They aren't. Pedantry is a good quality when doing system architecture. It's a bad quality in consulting.