I've noticed a similar attitude in programmers who have done a lot of VisualBasic or HTML/JavaScript, especially with GUI tools and on Windows. I think it may be something about how unfathomable those tools' inner workings are -- they get people into a "keep poking at it until it seems to work" mentality, because the results don't appear to be logical. Eventually people come to distrust tools and are quick to blame all problems on bugs in the language/compiler/OS/etc.
Most of the programmers who I enjoy working with tend to think of the whole thing as a sort of elaborate game. You try to come up with a good move, and you see what happens, and if your strategy works, you win. I think of programming more like a series of victories than a series of problems.
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