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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:34:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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Subject: Re: Coding style - a non-issue
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Mike Castle wrote:

> 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?

It is more subtle, look better inside :)



- Davide


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