What is this retardedness?

WTF? I came to /prog/ expecting to see programmers discussing programming, maybe some newbs asking questions, some codes, some cool shit. But all I see is some retarded spam and retarded inside jokes (puddi? what is that?), and some children who think they're cool or funny by spamming "zomg lol puddi!1@!11@!" over and over along with retarded formatting "tricks" for 14-year-olds.

Maybe I got the wrong idea about this culture from a first superficial glance. But honestly I don't feel like lurking for a long time if it's gonna be worthless. Maybe some of the serious people here would be generous and tell me what's going on, and give me a brief idea about the place?

I appreciate it.

Spammers gonna spam, but I don't really care. So save your breath.

Oh, thanks guys. That relieves me.

Since we're at it, what are the most preferred languages here? Any discrimination against certain languages or companies?

I imagine the obvious answer would be Microsoft and anything related to it for the latter question, and everything open source for the former.