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holy wars[Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the termsbig-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Warsand a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars haveincluded Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyoneelse's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS,BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran,etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holywars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy warsmost of the participants spend their time trying to pass offpersonal value choices and cultural attachments as objectivetechnical evaluations. See also theology. |