Geek Mythology: The Religious, and Spiritual Folklore Surrounding Programming

Re:Geek Mythology: The Religious, and Spiritual Folklore Sur... by sovietswag on Saturday January 28, 2023 @07:13PM (#34563415)

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

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Re:Geek Mythology: The Religious, and Spiritual Folklore Sur... by bank6062 on Saturday January 28, 2023 @07:39PM (#34563628)

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

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Re:Geek Mythology: The Religious, and Spiritual Folklore Sur... by sitkack on Sunday January 29, 2023 @09:41PM (#34575255)

Crockford punctuated the hell out of that guy.

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Re:Geek Mythology: The Religious, and Spiritual Folklore Sur... by teddyh on Saturday January 28, 2023 @08:00PM (#34563777)

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

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Re:Geek Mythology: The Religious, and Spiritual Folklore Sur... by 082349872349872 on Saturday January 28, 2023 @08:31PM (#34563974)

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

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Re:Geek Mythology: The Religious, and Spiritual Folklore Sur... by teddyh on Sunday January 29, 2023 @12:17PM (#34570249)

Missing: Tabs vs. spaces.

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Re:Geek Mythology: The Religious, and Spiritual Folklore Sur... by teddyh on Sunday January 29, 2023 @12:22PM (#34570306)

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

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