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SubjectRe: Coding style - a non-issue
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Larry McVoy wrote:

> If you want an experiment in evolution, then let *everything* into
> the kernel. That's how evolution works, it tries everything, it doesn't
> prescreen. Go read Darwin, go think, there isn't any screening going on,
> evolution *is* the screening.

So-called 'natural selection' is only a subset of things that can quite
legitimately be called evolution. And there certainly is screening in
nature, it's called sexual selection.

Linus's point is mainly about parallelism. Many more changes get tried in
the Linux space than could ever happen in a traditional software
development environment.

--
"Love the dolphins," she advised him. "Write by W.A.S.T.E.."

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