Re^2: Perl making people more POLITE

[TGI]

perl's low defect rate must help to reinforce that effect. :)

I don't think there's any causative effect, really. I think normal social effects are at play here. The Perl community has somehow managed to evolve as a friendly place. At this point it's a self reinforcing system. However, if noxious, vituperative folks were allowed to dominate the conversation, the friendly people would leave and standard Internet behavior would ensue, as the new feedback system gained dominance.

The OPs thesis sounds kinda like the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.