Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 21:27:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 21:27:10 -0500 Received: from adsl-64-166-241-227.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([64.166.241.227]:44559 "EHLO www.hockin.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 21:26:59 -0500 From: Tim Hockin Message-Id: <200112010202.fB122bE20177@www.hockin.org> Subject: Re: Coding style - a non-issue To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 18:02:37 -0800 (PST) Cc: riel@conectiva.com.br (Rik van Riel), akpm@zip.com.au (Andrew Morton), lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy), phillips@bonn-fries.net (Daniel Phillips), hps@intermeta.de (Henning Schmiedehausen), jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: from "Linus Torvalds" at Nov 30, 2001 04:50:34 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I'm deadly serious: we humans have _never_ been able to replicate > something more complicated than what we ourselves are, yet natural > selection did it without even thinking. a very interesting argument, but not very pertinent - we don't have 10's of thousands of year or even really 10's of years. We have to use intellect to root out the obviously bad ideas, and even more importantly the bad-but-not-obviously-bad ideas. > Quite frankly, Sun is doomed. And it has nothing to do with their > engineering practices or their coding style. I'd love to hear your thoughts on why. - 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/