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Very endearing post :). I’m keeping a collection of computing holy wars that I come across if anyone wants to check it out: https://josh8.com/blog/wars_of_computing.html

I’ll add a footnote to this post, it captures the spirit well.

If anyone has suggestions for things to add to my list it’d be much appreciated




> "Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration." - SK-B


I wish I could find it, but the Jacob Thornton vs Doug Crockford semi-colon in JS war was fun.


Crockford punctuated the hell out of that guy.


Discussed a few days ago here on HN: The CamelCase vs. snake_case issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34525139


You’re missing Little-Endians versus the Big-Endians: https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien137.txt


Missing: Tabs vs. spaces.




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