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What the fuck? Everybody here is praising Linus for some of the most perverse and regressive logic imaginable because they enjoy his supposed bravado. What non
by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
What the fuck? Everybody here is praising Linus for some of the most perverse and regressive logic imaginable because they enjoy his supposed bravado.
What nonsense. You can apply his exact same logic about kernel debuggers to reject all advances in software made after 1968. If only all programmers used nothing but DOS and ASM on 4-bit CPUs, we would finally be liberated. Finally let "Darwinism in software development" take its course.
(Of course, I'm sure most people commenting here have never hacked on anything more sophisticated than a V7 Unix derivative.)
- twic 11y agoLinus's argument here isn't just wrong, it's bloody obviously wrong. And not for the first time. Does anyone remember the Git generation number debacle? Or the business about wanting fixed hardware interfaces to video cards? Linus is an uncommonly gifted low-level x86 hacker. But his technical judgment is mediocre. I just don't get why he's held in such esteem.