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Re:MDN converted to Markdown by appleflaxen on Saturday November 05, 2022 @11:01AM (#33482120)
I thought

Linux vs BSD

and

C vs Lisp

were traditional examples of this.

Re:MDN converted to Markdown by mdaniel on Saturday November 05, 2022 @12:55PM (#33483222)
> C vs Lisp

I wish there was a statically typed functional language on the right hand side, because `(defun take-action (thing) (format "ohgawd what type is thing?!"))` is for sure less powerful than `int take_action(struct foo *thing);`

Re:MDN converted to Markdown by sicp-enjoyer on Saturday November 05, 2022 @03:44PM (#33484878)
Also C vs pascal and ada.