rwar

religious war. A fierce debate among programmers about the best way to do something. Neither side will admit the other view has any merit and wants everyone to conform to its way of doing things. In Java there are rwars about the ideal form for a beautified java program, where there should be white space, how braces should indent, should you use wildcard imports, coding conventions, is EMACS proof of the existence of God or Satan, is Sun or Microsoft the mother of all evils…