>>>>http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_switched_back_to_p_1.html
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>>>>Ruby vs. PHP, VFP vs. .Net, ... seems like a lot of programmers are very religious ...
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>>>Do you expect a thread as long as that one? :)
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>>Yes ;) The Perl/PHP/Python/Ruby crowd are at least as religious as we are here with VFP, maybe even more.
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>When I first read the title of this thread, I wanted to reply with just "it depends", but then I understood that the term "religious" here means intolerant, bickering, full of prejudice... can't say I disagree with that definition :).

I think fanatical may have been a more worthy term to use.