What are the programming religious wars of the generations before our current generation?

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Published on 2010-04-15T13:52:36Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 13:53 UTC
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Being 32 years old, I did not follow debates in programming, language design, and platforms in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and most of the 1990s. I sometimes hear glimpse of what the major debates were and how they turned the course of history. It makes me wonder what I take for granted.

I am curious, what were the debates. The ones I know are:

Procedural vs. Object Orientated Programming
Lisp vs. C
Software vs. Chips with Embedded Code

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