note eyepopslikeamosquito <P> Right after clicking on your node, I clicked on [id://328478] and noticed [id://526866], which seems relevant. :) </P> <P> Without wanting to get involved, it seems there are four categories of language religious war: <ol> <li> "Open Source" (Perl,Python,Ruby,...) vs "Corporate" (Java,C#,...) <li> "Open Source" infighting: Perl vs Python vs Ruby vs PHP ... (related to [BrowserUk]'s point about "fragmentation" in the Linux world). <li> "Corporate" infighting (often involving lawsuits): Java vs C# ... <li> Fighting about type systems (static,dynamic,"weak","strong"...) (e.g. Perl/Python/Ruby vs C++/Java/C#/Haskell). </ol> and it is the first category above that most resembles your linked Maddog counter-argument blog post. </P> 1007722 1007722