In Clive Thompson's Coders, Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood claims programming causes people to be nitpickier: “If you go to work and everyone around you is an asshole, you’re going to become like that. And the computer is the ultimate asshole. It will fail completely and spectacularly if you make the tiniest error. ‘I forgot a semicolon.’ Well guess what, your spaceship is a complete ball of fire because you forgot a fucking semicolon.”