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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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Subject: Re: Domian Validation (Re: 2.5.1 - intermediate bio stuff..)
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On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Larry McVoy wrote:
> 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?

It must be the latter, since Linus has always stated a
preference for simplifying issues.  Oh wait, that one
is incompatible with both ;)

cheers,

Rik
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