The only more masochist geeks are the Perl ones - especially the ones who entered the “most obfuscated code” contests.

Nah, too relevant, what with LUA, functional programming, currying, and AI, et. al. ;)

I did an AI robot arena bot in college using Lisp. That was interesting.

I see your VHDL, and raise with Prolog… or Postscript, similar paradigm.

The revenge!

It’s dark… you are eaten by a grue.

No. The proper term is GEEK. Needs are uncoordinated, awkward, have no fashion sense, and occasionally tape their broken glasses (or say sheepishly, “did I do that?”)

Geeks have in-depth, we’ll researched knowledge on topics that are obscure to the “mundanes”, have intellectual curiosity, and sometimes gain in wealth as a result. In many cases, they tend to make non-geeks (and geeks for other topics) completely befuddled. This sometimes results in insecurity on the part of non-geeks, which negatively impacts their social lives. On rare occasions, such geeks are so over the top smart that they transcend such petty attitudes (see: Neil deGrasse Tyson)

This gave me a chill, as it is reminiscent of a scene in the 1970 movie “Colossus: The Forbin Project”

“This is the voice of World Control”.