Hmm, thought-provoking. I take issue with this post if it's proscribing all programming into these three camps. Most notably, I'm not sure how important camp #1

Hmm, thought-provoking. I take issue with this post if it's proscribing all programming into these three camps. Most notably, I'm not sure how important camp #1 is, and I get the sense that there are several separate camps buried in #2 and #3. Another commentator makes the point that there's the smithy tribe, and I think that's a great example. At the end of the day, what it is that the code does seems to be variegated and broad enough that I look at #2 and #3 as two dimensional axes with a huge amount of sub tribes in between. There are definitely parts of #1 there, for sure: I think it's how we got to the current popularity of Python and Ruby, and I also think it's how we got from initial versions of JavaScript to ES6 onwards and TS.