Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761613AbYBOXGh (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:06:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757271AbYBOXG0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:06:26 -0500 Received: from smtp-out0.tiscali.nl ([195.241.79.175]:56866 "EHLO smtp-out0.tiscali.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756144AbYBOXGY (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:06:24 -0500 Message-ID: <47B61AD7.80902@tiscali.nl> Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:05:59 +0100 From: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , Jeff Garzik , David Miller , arjan@infradead.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-)) References: <20080211203146.3d28d1a0@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20080212044314.GA4888@kroah.com> <20080211211751.3e265754@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20080211.221126.230471463.davem@davemloft.net> <47B1CB08.4020101@garzik.org> <20080212174824.GA1919@kroah.com> <20080212191552.GA20883@kroah.com> <47B32510.20200@tiscali.nl> <20080213180833.50019be7@core> In-Reply-To: <20080213180833.50019be7@core> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 782 Lines: 17 Alan Cox wrote: >> Evolution in nature and changes in code are different because in code junk >> and bugs are constantly removed. In biology junk is allowed and may provide >> a pool for future development. Linux development is intended and not >> survival. > > I would be interested to see any evidence (rather than intuition) to > support that, given that both appear to be the same kind of structure and > that structure is nowadays fairly well understood. What do you mean with structure, the evolution? that both are a language? -- 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/