...but some nerds are more equal than others.

Wow I'm an old engineer nerd. I feel so exposed. Zero is nothing always start at one for life.

This is deep.

Where is Objective-C?

Perl should say: You are old and a nerd or you use Debian

As a ruby guy, I'm just happy to be included.

No. The proper term is GEEK. Needs are uncoordinated, awkward, have no fashion sense, and occasionally tape their broken glasses (or say sheepishly, "did I do that?")

Geeks have in-depth, we'll researched knowledge on topics that are obscure to the "mundanes", have intellectual curiosity, and sometimes gain in wealth as a result. In many cases, they tend to make non-geeks (and geeks for other topics) completely befuddled. This sometimes results in insecurity on the part of non-geeks, which negatively impacts their social lives. On rare occasions, such geeks are so over the top smart that they transcend such petty attitudes (see: Neil deGrasse Tyson)