Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:15:09 -0800 | From | Petko Manolov <> | Subject | Re: Coding style - a non-issue |
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:-)) This made my day.. May be my week. :-))
100% agree (better not play gods) and i think this is the end of the discussion.
Petko
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > >>I'm very interested too, though I'll have to agree with Larry >>that Linux really isn't going anywhere in particular and seems >>to be making progress through sheer luck. >> > > Hey, that's not a bug, that's a FEATURE! > > You know what the most complex piece of engineering known to man in the > whole solar system is? > > Guess what - it's not Linux, it's not Solaris, and it's not your car. > > It's you. And me. > > And think about how you and me actually came about - not through any > complex design. > > Right. "sheer luck". > > Well, sheer luck, AND: > - free availability and _crosspollination_ through sharing of "source > code", although biologists call it DNA. > - a rather unforgiving user environment, that happily replaces bad > versions of us with better working versions and thus culls the herd > (biologists often call this "survival of the fittest") > - massive undirected parallel development ("trial and error") > > I'm deadly serious: we humans have _never_ been able to replicate > something more complicated than what we ourselves are, yet natural > selection did it without even thinking. > > Don't underestimate the power of survival of the fittest. > > And don't EVER make the mistake that you can design something better than > what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a > feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence _much_ too much credit. > > Quite frankly, Sun is doomed. And it has nothing to do with their > engineering practices or their coding style. > > Linus
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