I think he's pinned down the groups wrong; here's how I see the poles of language snobbery: - Language snobs come in a couple of sorts; hard core programming l

I think he's pinned down the groups wrong; here's how I see the poles of language snobbery: - Language snobs come in a couple of sorts; hard core programming language wonks, and tinkerers. Tinkerers play with every technology and get excited enough about a new technology coming out that they have to get their hands on it. They know and use lots of programming languages because programming languages are neat. The downside is the depth of knowledge is often somewhat limited and they tend to get distracted by the next thing. - Luddites who code. Luddites consider new technologies, aside from the ones that they're making, largely annoying and quite possibly evil. They tend to stay behind the technology curve, but tend to know their tools quite well. They like to get things finished, since that was the point, right?