| Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:09:14 -0800 | From | Mike Castle <> | Subject | Re: Coding style - a non-issue |
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:50:34PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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")
Linux is one big genetic algorithms project?
mrc -- Mike Castle dalgoda@ix.netcom.com www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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