If Perl Hackers have any flaw it could only be our painful, shocking modesty

Vey amusing post - it's a long time since I've laughed so much at a post on perlmonks. (And it was a very healthy, wholesome laugh ... not my usual disbelieving, sarcastic and cynical laugh.)
Nice !!!

I'm reminded of a post from Karl Glazebrook to the PDL mailing list (a coupla years back), where he suggested that the collective noun for a group of python programmers should be a "smug".
It got me thinking about creating collective nouns for groups of people who programme in other languages.
I thought a group of Java programmers should be called a "wank", a group of C programmers a "claustrophobe", a collection of COBOL programmers an "anachronism", a collection of C++ programmers an "aloof", and a collection of perl programmers a "cemetery".
Not so sure that everyone will agree, but ;-)

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^2: Why does it seem as though Perl has the only community of friendly, non patronizing or demeaning, programmers? What is with every one else? by syphilis
in thread Why does it seem as though Perl has the only community of friendly, non patronizing or demeaning, programmers? What is with every one else? by Nathanp

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