Re: [plt-scheme] The affect of statically typed languages…

Seems to me that virtually all the programmers I've worked with would qualify as MBTI type INTP or INTJ, each only about 1% of the general population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTJ

Do you have any intuitions or nascent thoughts on this?

Cheers!
  Gene, a scheme-using INTP


--- On Sat, 6/16/07, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> From: Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] The affect of statically typed languages…
> To: "Grant Rettke" <grettke at acm.org>
> Cc: "PLT Scheme" <plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu>
> Date: Saturday, June 16, 2007, 12:54 PM
> On Jun 16, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Grant Rettke wrote:
> 
>> Is there any work done by folks in the field of psychology on how
>> programmers choose their programming languages?
> 
> 
> Yes. The question is, however, whether a psychological
> investigation  
> of logical relationships is meaningful.
> 
> See ppig.org. -- Matthias
> 



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