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I'm confused, this is just counting starting braces no?

• Cpoll 11y ago
  I think the idea is that Linux has two orders of magnitude more loops, so one order of magnitude more 4-level-indentations is actually an improvement over Git's code, by ratio. It's not as if Torvalds wrote the entire codebase by himself, anyway.
  • paulddraper 11y ago
    ? Git and linux were both written (originally) by Torvalds. And both use a fair amount of deep indentation.
    • bpchaps 11y ago
      Right. I wasn't really commenting on whether git/linux were coded "correctly" in either case, just that it's not a very helpful metric for the larger conversation.
      • paulddraper 11y ago
        Fair enough. And my (flippant) comment was on two very large, very successful projects written predominantly in C with thousands of contributors. Whether >3 level of indentation is "good", IDK. But it happens a lot. And I'm a practical man.