> You will find smart people who believe very strongly > both ways. In a seemingly very high fraction of these > cases, it seems that people are really

> You will find smart people who believe very strongly > both ways. In a seemingly very high fraction of these > cases, it seems that people are really just taking the > practice they are more comfortable with I think you've just solved the Internet, and every programming holy war ever. The irony of course being that tech folk hold themselves up as being particularly rational and immune to this kind of thing. It's a strong indicator that a problem is considerably less important than people intuitively feel it is. Likewise, a great way to tell that a news source is genuinely unbiased is both sides of an argument complaining of its bias. One of the few (only?) things to love about Go is that a large portion of dull holy war decisions have been premade for you. Generally (imho) wrongly, but who cares? They've been made, and we can get on with solving problems effectively.