Python : Pythonista / Ruby: Rubyist : / D : ?

Idan Arye via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Apr 23 03:34:29 PDT 2017


On Saturday, 22 April 2017 at 08:30:03 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> Terms such as Pythonista, Rubyist, Rustacean, Gopher, etc. are 
> terms of tribalism and exclusion. They are attempts to ensure 
> people claiming membership of the tribe reject being polyglot 
> by pressuring them to eschew all other languages.
>
> A good programmer can work professionally with a number of 
> languages, the psychology of programming people have data 
> supporting this theory – if the languages have different 
> computational models.

Agreed. No need to praise your own group while ridiculing others. 
These are programming languages, not text editors.


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