Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2001 20:02:39 -0700 | From | Victor Yodaiken <> | Subject | Re: Coding style - a non-issue |
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:50:34PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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".
Somehow this does not give me a warm and fuzzy feeling about the length of the next Linux kernel development cycle.
> 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.
Linux is what it is because of design, not accident. And you know that better than anyone. If mindless rooting about could make a good OS, then we'd all be using [ in a rare moment of good sense I don't finish this sentence ]
The question is whether Linux can still be designed at current scale.
> Quite frankly, Sun is doomed. And it has nothing to do with their > engineering practices or their coding style.
The San Andreas fault?
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