*scratches head*

I'm looking through this and I find some logical flaws in your arguments, which I can prove by exception and/or set theory, but instead I'll be short (*maybe*) with this rebuttle.

Yes, perl coders have their own culture, but I think you are trying to be much too specific about an abstract idea.

I hammer away at a windoze machine all day long because that is the standard at the company at which I work. I still use Perl...and C++...and VB and ECMAS scripting langs, as the need arrises. I try to use the best tool for the job.

That being said, it is dangerous to glob $perlcoders strictly based on the list of commonalities you rattled off. Yes, you are going to see a cross section that have similar interests, but that will hold true with any group with an unbounded membership. The one thing that binds us as a group/set is PERL. It's all about the code.

I think that you should look at a more generalized set/group when it comes to the points of interest. Geek, maybe, or male centric with small exception (there are some ladies out there who fit the description), I dunno. But to say that all perl coders share those things..*wince* dangerous assumption. We share Perl, everything else, IMHO, is coincidence.

C-. (*okay, not so short*)

In reply to Re: Perl as Culture........ by cacharbe
in thread Perl as Culture........ by JSchmitz

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