Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:06:19 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: IDE? |
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On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I actually don't think it's the people as much as it is the ridiculous > linkages inside ide.c and the hugely complicated rules. The code is messy.
Note: it _is_ the people too, don't get me wrong. But in other areas we have people like Al Viro, who can drive grown men to cry (and drink) with his not-very-polite postings. And in those areas it hasn't been a huge problem, even though some people probably take a valium or two before they dare open emails from Al.
So the messiness and interconnectedness of the IDE layer just seems to bring the people problem to a sharp and ugly point. The absolute lack of communication skills wrt IDE among the people who have worked on it has been stunning, and that probably _is_ because the code is so hard to even talk about.
Linus
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