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1. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) |
holy wars
n.
[from Usenet, but may predate it; common] n. flame wars over religious
issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularized the terms big-endian
and little-endian in connection with the LSB-first/MSB-first controversy
was entitled On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace.
Great holy wars of the past have included ITS vs.: Unix, Unix vs.:
VMS, BSD Unix vs.: System V, C vs.: Pascal, C vs.: FORTRAN, etc.
In the year 2003, popular favorites of the day are KDE vs, GNOME, vim vs.
elvis, Linux vs. [Free|Net|Open]BSD. Hardy perennials include EMACS vs.:
vi, my personal computer vs.: everyone else's personal computer, ad
nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal
technical disputes is that in a holy war most of the participants spend
their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural
attachments as objective technical evaluations. This happens precisely
because in a true holy war, the actual substantive differences between the
sides are relatively minor. See also theology.
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2. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
holy wars
[Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars 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.
[Jargon File]
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