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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:44:54 -0800
From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:12:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> No. Sound software engineering principles is to design good interfaces,
> and make the low level code adhere to them.

Last week, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I _am_ claiming that the people who think you "design" software are
> seriously simplifying the issue, and don't actually realize how they
> themselves work.

So which is it?
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