Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:30:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:30:55 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:20232 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:29:53 -0500 Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 12:33:37 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Robert Love cc: Rob Wilkens , Christoph Hellwig , Greg KH , Alan Cox , William Lee Irwin III , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*? In-Reply-To: <1042403616.834.94.camel@phantasy> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1231 Lines: 29 On 12 Jan 2003, Robert Love wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 15:22, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > No, you've been brainwashed by CS people who thought that Niklaus > > Wirth actually knew what he was talking about. He didn't. He > > doesn't have a frigging clue. > > I thought Edsger Dijkstra coined the "gotos are evil" bit in his > structured programming push? Yeah, he did, but he's dead, and we shouldn't talk ill of the dead. So these days I can only rant about Niklaus Wirth, who took the "structured programming" thing and enforced it in his languages (Pascal and Modula-2), and thus forced his evil on untold generations of poor CS students who had to learn langauges that weren't actually useful for real work. (Yeah, yeah, most _practical_ versions of Pascal ended up having all the stuff necessary to break structure, but as you may be able to tell, I was one of the unwashed masses who had to write in "standard Pascal" in my youth. I'm scarred for life). Linus - 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/