> Just because Linus Torvalds is a successful programmer doesn't mean he is at all correct about issues of programming. The vast majority of any of the opinions

> Just because Linus Torvalds is a successful programmer doesn't mean he is at all correct about issues of programming. The vast majority of any of the opinions I've seen him express on programming fly in the face of good engineering practice under some guise of "real, macho programmers don't need tools". Is he wrong in this instance or our you going to ignore his point because he's not always right? > I'm not afraid to admit: I need tools. I need lots and lots of tools to do my job. The more the computer can be used to make my job easier, the better. There is no virtue in hard work for hard work's sake. So, as a C programmer I use lot's and lot's of tools. But that doesn't change the point that many view typedefs as bad practice[1]. [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3781932/is-typedefing-a-pointer-type-considered-bad-practice http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3781932/is-typedefing-a-p...