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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:09:14 -0800
From: Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: Coding style - a non-issue
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:50:34PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Well, sheer luck, AND:
>  - free availability and _crosspollination_ through sharing of "source
>    code", although biologists call it DNA.
>  - a rather unforgiving user environment, that happily replaces bad
>    versions of us with better working versions and thus culls the herd
>    (biologists often call this "survival of the fittest")
>  - massive undirected parallel development ("trial and error")

Linux is one big genetic algorithms project?

mrc
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