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On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, David Masover wrote: > The point is, this was in the kernel for quite awhile, and it was so > ugly that someone would rather be fucked with a chainsaw. If something > that bad can make it in the kernel and stay for awhile because it > worked, and no one wanted to replace it I would like to think we could learn from the mistakes made in the past, instead of repeating them. Ugly code often is so ugly people don't *want* to fix it, so merging ugly code is often a big mistake. -- The Theory of Escalating Commitment: "The cost of continuing mistakes is borne by others, while the cost of admitting mistakes is borne by yourself." -- Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in Economics - 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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