A number of years ago, one of the co-founders at work asked various people, "how would you feel if I said you looked like a $LANGUAGE programmer?" And he substi

A number of years ago, one of the co-founders at work asked various people, "how would you feel if I said you looked like a $LANGUAGE programmer?" And he substituted Perl, Ruby, Python, and PHP for $LANGUAGE. We often mock up in our minds what it means to work in a language or framework and bucket people based on these poor signals.