I was going through this article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subculture

Which got mee thinking is programming a subculture?

After the a while I started thinking it really hard, and if you go really in depth this is a very complex and interesting question to ask.

YOu can even ask yourself if (heavy) internet (social) users are an subculture and programmers a culture within.

I think it might be an interesting discussion, hope you like it!

NOTE:

I linked the wiki article because it might be a good baseline, maybe you can base you answer on Ken Gelder´s proposal to distinguish subcultures. But it should be based on a little bit more that intuition.

Thanks in advance!

Trufa