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Being on the outside looking in, I find it hard to understand why there's so much heat in this thread, but I thought I'd make a general observation about the language wars I've seen lately.
Language wars always seem to break out in programming languages that are relatively close to each other, be it Scheme/Lisp, APL/J, VB/Delpi, Java/Smalltalk, Objective-C/C++, Python/Perl, etc... They also seem to be touched off by some newbie coming in and asking which language is better.
Not that the above link is worth reading, though there are a couple of things buried in all the dust. Just thought it was an opportunity to make a comment, given that many discussions of programming languages end up being killed by useless bantering. Fortunately it's fairly peaceful around these parts. :-)
Posted to "" by Chris Rathman on 1/14/01; 6:55:29 PM
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Scheme & Lisp Language War
