OT: Behaviour of Experienced Programmers Towards Newcomers

[Dave Jones]

On Saturday, 17 March 2018 at 06:46:17 UTC, Uknown wrote:
> https://opensource.com/article/18/3/avoid-humiliating-newcomers
>
> Its a blog post about how sometimes expert programmers treat 
> newcomers badly. I haven't really noticed  any of what he 
> mentions in the D community, as most of the regular members are 
> very polite and friendly, but I thought it was an important 
> read nonetheless.

Most assholes in programming forums are intermediate level, and 
young. They've got enough experience to overvalue their own 
opinion, and they are young enough that they get offended easily 
when someone disagrees with them.