I remember Perl programmers as being weird but nice enough. It's Lisp programmers who were impossible to talk to and mostly responded to any questions by telling you to kill yourself.

I remember reading those BOFH stories because I thought it was how you became a cool technical person at the time, but never figured out why he was so angry. Eventually I realized it's because he was Gen X and in academia, so they probably had no money and all had lead poisoning.