Messages in this thread |  | | Date | 02 Dec 2001 00:23:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: Coding style - a non-issue |
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torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) wrote on 30.11.01 in <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111302048200.1459-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>:
> 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.
Recently, that seems to get popular in gcc. Sometimes, on gc@gcc.gnu.org, you'll see a whole thread where people throw one literature reference after another at each other.
Maybe a whole 3% of the traffic.
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