Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Coding style - a non-issue | Date | Sat, 1 Dec 2001 21:30:13 +0100 |
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On December 1, 2001 09:17 pm, Victor Yodaiken wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 07:13:55AM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On December 1, 2001 06:15 am, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Victor Yodaiken wrote: > > > > Here's a characteristic good Linux design method ,( or call it "less than > > > > random mutation method" if that makes you feel happy): read the > > > > literature, think hard, try something, implement > > > > > > Hah. > > > > > > I don't think I've seen very many examples of that particular design > > > methodology. > > > > I do it a little differently: think hard, try something, implement, read the > > literature, repeat as necessary. > > Ordering is not key in this recipe.
Right, I'm just saying that's how I typically do it. A decade ago I'd probably have put the 'try something' first, and a decade before that, 'read the litature'.
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