> But I do find a fairly large subset of their communities really annoying in how much they exemplify this behaviour. They’re too caught up in congratulating th

> But I do find a fairly large subset of their communities really annoying in how much they exemplify this behaviour. They’re too caught up in congratulating themselves on how good they are at something to notice that they’re terrible at it, and it makes for some extremely frustrating interactions. There it is, in the last paragraph. I was wondering what you are trying to say. But I guarantee you, it's not Ruby or Haskell making them like that. It's rather something intrinsic that feeds on accomplishment, however little it might seem to you. On the other hand, there's also a lot of mathematicians, bloggers and even roleplayers who display quite similar behavior. Just imagine the pride of the young mathematicians when they prove something difficult for the first time without the help of a text book, when the professor could solve this in his sleep. Or think of the blogger that spreads the word on his latest article, when a philosopher or writer thinks it doesn't say much about anything. Or the roleplayer boasting about his skill for acting out his character, when an actual actor thinks its laughable. Many people, irrespective of what they're doing, display this kind of behavior. So if these people annoy you so much, avoid them or help them. Don't tell them that it's frustrating to interact with them. I guess you wouldn't have enjoyed it either if you just started out and someone would have told you that all your accomplishments until now are worth nothing and you shouldn't tell or show anybody what you are doing since it's embarrassing for the community. Nobody is good at everything, I know a thousand things that I don't know or which I would execute terribly. But I know that I can still reduce this number. And if it takes me a whole week to write a program that is an abomination and it would've been a matter of hours for you, I'll still tell it to everybody since I'm proud of however little it is that I can accomplish. On the other hand, I won't laugh at you and I won't tell you that it's frustrating to talk to you if you say something about the LHC or black holes or semiconductor physics when you barely have an idea about quantum field theory, general relativity and solid state phyiscs. I'll either avoid you or - what is usually the case - I'll help you understand it.