[nirs]

Of course it is interesting - this is your major tool. Photographers are obsessed with cameras, programmers with editors...

[bluishgreen]

I do quiet a bit of photography, imho photographers should not be obsessed with camera. and that further implies that this is not a good explanation for programmers to be obsessed with editors. The key word is "obsessed". You should definitely think about it. But save the obsession for other important things.

[mdakin]

Such people are properly known as "camera fondlers". [1] Only some of them are actually photographers.

[1] http://nemeng.com/leica/002e.shtml