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It is usual to correlate technology preferences with entrepriseyness - BigCo developers, in general, prefer java or c#, whereas startuppy devs, in general, pref
by conanite 14y ago
It is usual to correlate technology preferences with entrepriseyness - BigCo developers, in general, prefer java or c#, whereas startuppy devs, in general, prefer ruby or python, and nobody likes php except the millions of devs who use it.
Is there a similar correlation between technology preferences and political leaning, or religion? If I said I was Christian, or opposed abortion, or approved of gun ownership or of invading Iraq, would you assume, bayesianly, that I probably prefer XML to JSON?
Does a preference for lisp, for example, indicate a predisposition to atheism? What kinds of political or religious leanings might be inferred from one's position on the RDBMS-NoSQL spectrum?
- fierarul 14y agoProgramming is a way of modeling reality and a preference might reflect a bit of your own mind. Then again, people aren't always consistent, so it might not necessarily correlate strongly. Nice remark though!