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ReligiousWar~s are long-running discussions (debates/arguments/FlameWar~s) in which there are merits to both sides (so there is never a clear winner) and participants have emotional investment in the issue (so participants are likely to resort to ad hominem attacks). When people who have 5 years training experiance running one system attempt to have an discussion with others who have 5 years training experiance running another system they are likely to generate much heat.
Some traditional ReligiousWar~s:
* [vi|Vim] vs [Emacs]
-* [AMD] [CPU]'
s vs [Intel] [CPU]'
s
+* [AMD] [CPU]s vs [Intel] [CPU]s
* [KDE] vs [GNOME]
* ReplyToMunging vs NoReplyToMunging
* [Linux] vs [Windows]
* [GPL] vs [BSD] license
* AppleMacintosh vs [x86]
* RedHat vs DebianLinux vs YourLinuxDistributionOfChoice
-* make(1) vs [Ant]
-* sh(1) vs csh(1) vs bash(1)
-* [C] vs [C++] vs [Java] vs [Perl]
+* [
make(1)]
vs [Ant]
+* [
sh(1)]
vs [
csh(1)]
vs [
bash(1)]
+* [C] vs [C++] vs [Java] vs [Perl] vs [Python] vs [Ruby] vs… nah, [PHP] doesn’t really count
* [Apples] vs [Oranges]
* [HJKL] vs [WASD]
-* Ninja
vs Pirates
-* [WLUG Wiki font size|http://www.wlug.org.nz/~perry/fonts.html]
+* Ninjas
vs Pirates
+* Bigger vs smaller
[WLUG Wiki font size|http://www.wlug.org.nz/~perry/fonts.html]
These are not mutually exclusive. Even the most long-running [vi|Vim] vs [Emacs] FlameWar will be broken off temporarily so its participants can engage in a [Linux] vs [Windows] FlameWar (on the side of [Linux], of course).
Time does not settle all ReligiousWar~s. Some withstand age. The ~BetaMax vs VHS war is still going strong, despite not only ~BetaMax having effectively lost in the market (even though it was clearly superior), but both technologies being displaced by optical storage anyway. Others do fizzle out, such as the structured programming vs GoTo war, or the war over implementing systems in assembly language vs highlevel ProgrammingLanguage~s.
