alt Hacker NewsI agree but don’t forget that the average programmer nowadays is a strait-laced corporate entity, whose personality is Node.js stickers on a macbook, like everybody else in their team.
They forget that Perl and co. were written by people that had one too many tabs of LSD in the 70s, sporting long hair and a ponytail.
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that Larry Wall, a devout evangelical Christian and the child of a pastor, was not turning on, tuning in, or dropping out in the 1970s.