lol

gills, thanks for providing more data that a hacker can be a cunning linguist.

Fairly sure he meant elitist.

I don't know, I've read Atwood for years and he pretty much thinks there are the 80% of developers that don't really care about computers, the 19% that do care, program for fun, and read computer books/blogs (he puts himself here), and 1% that are the elite wizards that create new languages, run the best OSS projects, drive new standards, etc. I don't think he's critical of these elite developers, just observing their nature.

Possibly - it just read more like the elitist types rather then the actual 1% elite (who are so rare you almost never know them).