Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261310AbUJWVwF (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 17:52:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261312AbUJWVwF (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 17:52:05 -0400 Received: from pdb9-d9bb9270.pool.mediaWays.net ([217.187.146.112]:24838 "EHLO citd.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261310AbUJWVwC (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 17:52:02 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 23:51:52 +0200 From: Matthias Schniedermeyer To: Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: The naming wars continue... Message-ID: <20041023215152.GA17596@citd.de> References: <20041022234631.GF28904@waste.org> <20041023011549.GK17038@holomorphy.com> <20041023154128.GP12780@ns.snowman.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041023154128.GP12780@ns.snowman.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 930 Lines: 27 On 23.10.2004 11:41, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Linus Torvalds (torvalds@osdl.org) wrote: > > However, for some reason four numbers just looks visually too obnoxious to > > I agree, four numbers is *very* obnoxious, I mean, really, if for no > other reason than *Oracle* uses four numbers. :) Actually Oracle uses (or at least displays) 5 numbers. :-) e.g. The version currently in use where i work: 9.2.0.5.0 Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. - 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/