As a reader of this blog, it’s likely that you tend to visit a number of nerd-oriented sites and have seen the Geek Hierarchy chart created by Lore Sjöberg on the Brunching Shuttlecocks site. Pictured below is the abridged version:
(Don’t know what a furry is? What, didn’t you see the CSI episode, Fur and Loathing in Las Vegas? Here’s the Wikipedia entry for “furry”.)
You might snicker at the concept of Star Trek furries, but believe me, they do exist. In fact, there’s a site devoted to stories that take place in a universe where furry versions of both Star Trek and Star Wars mileus co-exist called TrekWars: The Furry Conflict. Here’s a quick sampling of the Trek-based characters:
Lieutenant Commander Cyber Tiberius Hare (really!).
Luke Welling has crafted his own hierarchy chart, The Programmer Hierarchy, which seems to pretty accurately display the opinions of the language pundits these days:
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Forth programmers, where are?