Why is it that software developers are disproportionately fond of Monty Python?

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The number of "nerds" in the soft dev community is disproportionate to the number of "nerds" in the community at large:) Taken from "Orphans Preffered: Personality Characteristics of Great Designers" posted on gamasutra. Com"Programmers live for the "aha" insights that produce breakthrough design solutions. I think this is one reason that software developers' affinity for Monty Python makes more sense than it might at first appear.

Monty Python flouts social conventions using extremely unorthodox juxtapositions of elements of time and culture. The same independent, out-of-the-box thinking that gives rise to Monty Python's scripts can also give rise to the innovative technical design solutions that programmers strive for. " Sources: gamasutra.com/features/19991222/mcconnel... .

See also: tchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Though it is not true for all "computer guys" (of which software developers is a subset), the majority of them have no sense of humor of their own. They do not know when a joke gets old or when to stop telling it. This is why you will still see new references to "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" (if you don't understand the reference, you weren't on the Internet a couple of years ago) and other cult humor references to which the writer himself sometimes hasn't seen the source.

There is no catch-all for humor, but there's also no getting this through to a lot of software developers. That's why Holy Grail and tchhiker's references will continue to circulate well into the 21st century. The only chance they have of getting phased out is if they're replaced by something else.

Sources: empirical evidence Mogri's Recommendations The Ultimate tchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Amazon List Price: $18.95 Used from: $4.93 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 95 reviews) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition) Amazon List Price: $19.94 Used from: $7.99 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 726 reviews) .

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.