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holy wars
[{Usenet}, but may predate it] {flame war}s over {religious
issues}. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms
{big-endian} and {little-endian} was entitled "On Holy Wars
and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have
included {Emacs} vs. {vi}, my personal computer vs. everyone
else'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 holy
wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars
most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off
personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective
technical evaluations. See also {theology}.
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