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It's a little more advantageous to firmly establish your current language/style/concept as the standard than it is in skateboarding. The job market is all abou
by phamilton 16y ago
It's a little more advantageous to firmly establish your current language/style/concept as the standard than it is in skateboarding. The job market is all about hype. If RoR is the latest trend, a RoR programmer is better off. Same with Node.js. Same with HTML5 over flash.
While I doubt people actually think "I'm going to tell you that your choice of language sucks because I want more work" I also doubt bullies on the playground think "I don't have a lot of self esteem, so I'm going to pick on kids smaller than me to make myself feel better".
Some communities are more harsh than others. Ask a stupid question in #perl and compare the response with #python. The perl community is well established and isn't trying to evangelize. Python is (or was) less commonly used. They don't want to scare away new users because more python programmers means more support for the language.
It's not an excuse, but it is a possible explanation.
- gte910h 16y agoI was just under the impression the python community has a long tradition of getting things done while being far from experts in the language, i.e., a far greater proportion of non-professional programmers who just use python to make one part of their real job go smoother. This leads to a very high tolerance of people new to the language, and to misunderstandings. Ruby and perl seem to have more typical professional programmer types is all.