Diversity in I/T

Last night, after the Moncton User Group meeting, I tagged along to the Irish pub to socialise and hear war stories.  As is usual with such convocations, it was time well spent.

One thing I've found funny and frustrating about software folks (all other left-brain proclivities aside) is their our tendency toward "religion" when it comes to platforms, languages, coding styles, source control tools, development environments, you-name-it. 

Yet, at our table we were two Mac users, one Windows user, and one Linux freak--at least when it came to primary operating systems at work. Bi-fluency in O/Ses is certainly not uncommon, and tri-fluency not unheard-of.  One Ruby on Rails dev., one .NET dev., one Go dev. and one PHP dev.  Two Git users, one Mercurial user, one unknown.  One SQL Server user, one Postgre user, one MySQL user, and one of unknown database preference.  Two emacs users, one Visual Studio user, and one Geany user.   But we unanimously agred that keyboard shortcuts trump the mouse when editing--which spawned a hands-on demonstration in how to select/insert multiple lines in emacs.

I trust I've made my point?

If even folks like us (who are notoriously rabid about our tools) can have that fun (and productive) of a time over a few beers (and pineapple juice...more diversity), what the heck is wrong with the rest of the world?