The one thing that is hard to tolerate in this thread is the negative comment that makes sweeping generalizations about other people based on their choice of programming language.

You haven't been in many programming language discussion threads have you? ;)

IME C coders are a fairly relaxed bunch on average, definitely more relaxed than some of the younger and more "radical" language communities in C's neighborhood.

Yep we are completely insufferable, now let us be :)

Why? I see one subthread with a holy war on code style, but nothing else.