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The title of this post is editorialized. I do think the topic is worthy of discussion though, so I upvoted it. In spite of the tone and language, Torvalds mana
by tareqak 11y ago
The title of this post is editorialized. I do think the topic is worthy of discussion though, so I upvoted it.
In spite of the tone and language, Torvalds manages to keep the issue fairly impersonal (The reference to 'braindamage' sort of crosses the line). Nowhere does he specifically call any specific individual out, even though he easily could with git blame on the specific line as well as grabbing the author, committer(s), and reviewers (individuals responsible for signing off the commit) information from git log.
Still, if my code received that sort of treatment, I would probably be in tears.
- Alex3917 11y ago> if my code went that sort of treatment, I would probably be in tears. I think the reason Linus feels justified in being an asshole is that he feels you can't accidentally write code this way. Rather, he thinks it's someone trying to make themselves look smart at the expense of the project, which is itself assholish behavior. I'm not saying he's right, but if you look at it from his perspective it's at least logically consistent.