Re: [plt-scheme] The affect of statically typed languages…
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Gene Sullivan <gene_sullivan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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?
>From the above descriptions one could argue that programmers are
predisposed to statically typed languages, or to arguments over the
virtues and perils of same. Or perhaps just to bad fashion sense.
I'd like to know if the Myer-Briggs typing has been shown correct.
I'm not sure it is well-founded or complete. *cough*
N.