HOLY WARS

Domain	Definition
Computing	Holy wars n. [from Usenet, but may predate it; common] n. flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularized the terms big-endian and little-endian in connection with the LSB-first/MSB-first controversy was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Great holy wars of the past have included {ITS vs. {Unix, {Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. System V, C vs. {Pascal, C vs. FORTRAN, etc. In the year 2000, popular favorites of the day are KDE vs, GNOME, vim vs. elvis, Linux vs. [Free\|Net\|Open]BSD. Hardy perennials include EMACS vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy war most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. This happens precisely because in a true holy war, the actual substantive differences between the sides are relatively minor. See also theology. Source: Jargon File.
Literature	Holy Wars are to extirpate "heresy," or to extend what the state supposes to be the one true religion. The Crusades, the Thirty-Years' War, the wars against the Albigenses, etc., were so called. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Commercial Usage: HOLY WARS

Domain	Title
Books	For Love of the Game: The Holy Wars of Millsaps College & Mississippi College Football (reference) Holy Days, Holy Wars (Teacher's Guide) (reference) Holy Wars (reference) Holy Wars...Crusades...Jihad (reference) Ministry of Greed: The Inside Story of the Televangelists and Their Holy Wars (Newsweek Book) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Medieval Warfare - The Crusades: The Holy Wars (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Holy Wars (+2 Bonus Tracks) [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Ancestral Language Translations: HOLY WARS

Anagrams: HOLY WARS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-h-l-o-r-s-w-y"
	-2 letters: rashly, royals, shoaly, whorls.
	-3 letters: aryls, awols, halos, harls, hoars, hoary, horal, horas, horsy, howls, hoyas, hylas, orals, rawly, royal, shaly, shawl, shoal, shorl, showy, solar, sowar, washy, whorl, yawls, yowls.
	-4 letters: ahoy, alow, also, aryl, ashy, awls, awol, awry, halo, harl, haws, hays, hoar, hols, holy, hora, howl, hows, hoya, hoys, hyla.
	Words containing the letters "a-h-l-o-r-s-w-y"
	+4 letters: marshmallowy.
	+5 letters: yellowhammers, yellowthroats.
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Alternative Orthography: HOLY WARS

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Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Hebdomada sancta, Peristeria elata, Sabbatum Sanctum, Silybum marianum, Verbena officinalis. (various references)
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Specialty Definition: HOLY WARS