>And indeed, you can have a fruitful discussion about the relative merits of programming languages, so long as you exclude people who respond from identity. th

>And indeed, you can have a fruitful discussion about the relative merits of programming languages, so long as you exclude people who respond from identity. the thing is, that those people speaking from identity have an actual experience with the topic - biased or not. so you may not want to exclude them, so I guess the solution is - get mature participants? examples: If I received 1 cent for every read that .NET is Windows only in last 2 years I'd have like 4 cents. I've always liked "holy wars" between Java and C# because those were often between people who were deeply into their stack and you could learn a lot.