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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:11:41 +0200
From: Leon Woestenberg <leonw@mailcan.com>
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Subject: Re: Insults in the kernel-sources
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Hello Tobias,

Tobias Hirning wrote:
> have you ever tried a 
> grep "insult" -i -r ./*
>  in the sourcetree of the kernel?
> (insult must be replaced by an insult)
> Haven't?
> So do and think about, because the you can find to much of insults in 
> the sources.

This is a feature. I makes reading the source code enjoyable even for
people who do not know sh*t about C programming. And that's not an
insult :-)

I think some of the insults need updating though. We do not want to
support old insults (although Linux is well-known for excellent support 
for legacy entities).

Regards,

Leon.
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