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Re:3.5 Years, 500k Lines of Go by AdieuToLogic on Friday March 24, 2017 @04:02PM (#13951819) 

  ... if programmers were as prone to language
  flamewars 30+ years ago as they are now.

  I'm guessing the answer is probably yes. :)
Your guess is spot on. Not only languages (C vs Pascal, "why doesn't anyone use Ada?"), but probably best remembered for the vi vs emacs crusades. Though about 20+ years ago there were some pretty heated exchanges regarding OOP which seem to still smolder to this day (see HN history for evidence :-)).

There's a reason why Godwin's law[0] came about :-D

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

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