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From: John Alvord <jalvo@mbay.net>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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Subject: Re: GPLONLY kernel symbols???
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 21:07:55 -0800
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 20:58:16 -0800 (PST), Davide Libenzi
<davidel@xmailserver.org> wrote:

>On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
>> And one of the very first things that document says that coding style
>> is very personal and he doesn't want to force his views on others.
>> So, as a symbolic gesture, I printed out and burned that document.
>
>Richard, I fully agree with you that coding style is very personal and
>everyone is trying to prove that one style is better than onther one is
>very likely dumb.
>Nevertheless you've to agree that having a common coding style inside a
>project "helps" lesser the fatigue the brain has to sustain to "parse" the
>code.
>Even if my "native" coding style is slight different from the lk I'm very
>happy to work on a project that has a common style, don't you agree ?

The best programmer I ever knew told me that if you couldn't fake and
utilize another programmer's style... you were only an amateur.

john alvord
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