You'll have all seen the pattern. The sort of people who use language X tend to be the same people who use VCS Y tend to be the same people who think doing Z is a good idea tend to be the same people who don't see any problem with IDE W and protocol V.
Culture (by definition) is something that propagates amongst a community, and sometimes it's just poisonous. Or at least seems poisonous from an outsider's point of view. Except if it's java, in which case there's no two ways about it.
You'll have all seen the pattern. The sort of people who use language X tend to be the same people who use VCS Y tend to be the same people who think doing Z is a good idea tend to be the same people who don't see any problem with IDE W and protocol V.
Culture (by definition) is something that propagates amongst a community, and sometimes it's just poisonous. Or at least seems poisonous from an outsider's point of view. Except if it's java, in which case there's no two ways about it.