In 'Influence: Science and Practice', Cialdini delves into the research surrounding hazing and more abstractly, how the value we place on things is often correl

In 'Influence: Science and Practice', Cialdini delves into the research surrounding hazing and more abstractly, how the value we place on things is often correlated to the degree of difficulty or suffering endured to get them. Basically, I like linux and vim because I had to suffer so much learning them ;) but seriously, I think that notion applies heavily with coding. the languages and tools are often difficult and time-consuming to learn, and once you've invested the time to learn them well, you're psychologically predisposed to like them more. if time is valuable and one spends a lot of time learning a tool, only to find out later that it might be sub-par, it causes cognitive dissonance. at that point dissonance is most quickly reduced by looking for information confirming you've made the right choice, or simply assuming you have, and getting back to work not directly parallel or orthogonal to the OP, but just a thought that crossed my mind while I was reading this (I'm getting delirious because I popped some sleeping-pills, so I'm not to be held responsible to how coherent it was, orthogonality aside.)