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The article has sentences like: > First off, I’d suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards... Which suggests this was written from the point of

The article has sentences like: > First off, I’d suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards... Which suggests this was written from the point of view of a specific person. In which case, it should attribute the author somewhere. I couldn't find a byline anywhere. Also, no date.

pritambaral 9y ago
You should run `git blame` on the file in the Linux repo.
- bronson 9y ago
  Did you try it? I think you'd find it's part of the initial git commit on 2005-04-16: Linux-2.6.12-rc2 You could look in one of the historical trees.
  - luckydude 9y ago
    http://mcvoy.com/lm/CodingStyle.txt http://mcvoy.com/lm/CodingStyle.txt is the original history from the BitKeeper repo.
codefined 9y ago
I think it's just trying to emulate a colloquial tone, actually being written by a number of individuals (or at least being updated by multiple people).
antientropic 9y ago
It was originally written by Linus and is quite old (the line about burning the GNU coding standards was there in the first Git import [1], but IIRC it's way older). [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blame/master/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blame/master/Documentation...
- antientropic 9y ago
  Looks like it was introduced in Linux 1.3.53, which is from Jan 1996. http://lxr.linux.no/#linux-old+v1.3.53/Documentation/CodingStyle http://lxr.linux.no/#linux-old+v1.3.53/Documentation/CodingS...
loxs 9y ago
I can not find proof right now, but I've read some version of this in the early 2000s and the (initial) author is Linus Torvalds. You should be able to tell by the style :)