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I know several people working as software developers, myself included, who have a liberal arts education/background.

And isn't the thrust of the column (or book excerpt) that there's no easily definable "view of the world" specific to software developers?

Programmers aren't hard sciences people, as a general rule.

As someone who loves both can you explain the two very different views?

There is a classic discussion on the subject described here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures

I don't think there's anything wrong with that — it's useful to see an outside perspective once in a while.

Indeed, we can likely pinpoint the author's social circle to north-london politically-correct literati and media/arts "people-people".

The piece seems to imply that this is the real society, and that the nerds and boffins need to be controlled, lest they encode their unsavoury values into the fabric of the modern world.

I mean, it's a valid point, but the delivery could be more, um, inclusive.