What are the programming religious wars of the generations before our current generation?
- by Christopher Altman
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