Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 19:31:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 19:31:23 -0500 Received: from mta10.srv.hcvlny.cv.net ([167.206.5.45]:31438 "EHLO mta10.srv.hcvlny.cv.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 19:31:21 -0500 Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 19:38:13 -0500 From: Rob Wilkens Subject: RE: any chance of 2.6.0-test*? In-reply-to: To: Scott Robert Ladd Cc: Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , Greg KH , Alan Cox , William Lee Irwin III , Linux Kernel Mailing List Reply-to: robw@optonline.net Message-id: <1042418292.1209.247.camel@RobsPC.RobertWilkens.com> Organization: Robert Wilkens MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1795 Lines: 35 On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 19:03, Scott Robert Ladd wrote: > I've spent some time looking through the kernel source code, getting a feel > for the style and process before attempting to contribute something of my > own. In part that's why i haven't contributed too much of any actual code yet. I'm trying to get a feel for the code and the users. I figure the best way is to join the discussion list and follow the patches going in. > Your attitude against "goto" is perhaps based upon an excellent but dated > article, "Goto Considered Harmful", written by Edsger W. Dijkstra, and > published by the ACM in 1968. (A recent reprint can be found at > http://www.acm.org/classics/oct95/.) As you can tell from the date, this > article predates modern programming languages and idioms; it comes from a > time when Fortran ruled, and before Fortran 77 provided significant tools > for avoiding spaghetti code. It only goes to show that the core of computer science hasn't changed over the years. While some technology changes, the science itself stays the same. Much like a physicist should know the outdated theories of relativity by Albert Einstein (made way back in the 20th century as well) a good computer scientist should appreciate the contributions of its founders, and have a good grasp of their core contributions. I'm not claiming to be an expert in either field, however. Of course, this isn't a computer science mailing list, this is a linux kernel mailing list, so I apologize for getting off topic. Let's agree to drop it here. -Rob - 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/