Culture of UNIX and Windows Programmers

bebonzo writes "Joel Spolsky, 'Joel on Software' has an interesting review of Eric S. Raymond's book about 'The Art of UNIX programming'. Quote:"What are the cultural differences between Unix and Windows programmers? There are many details and subtleties, but for the most part it comes down to one thing: Unix culture values code which is useful to other programmers, while Windows culture values code which is useful to non-programmers." About slashdot: "slashdot-karma-whoring sectarianism..."" He's harsh on some points, but pretty on the money. Except about us. Nobody karma whores. Update Note to self, never post before coffee. Yes, its a dupe. get over it.

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Joel Spolsky is a bigoted windbag

[Alex Belits]

And his existence demonstrates that Unix programmers don't have a monopoly on ego and assholeness. Even though ESR is well known for preaching and bringing irrelevant issues into discussions, he at least usually has more or less good idea about what he is talking about. Joel, on the other hand, is a true believer into whatever he "learned" from Microsoft, and produces little more than repetitive propaganda of it, plus his, usually wrong and immature, claims about things that he has absolutely no idea about.

Why anyone is listening to him, leave alone, publishes him, I have no idea.