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I'm willing to bet my entire life savings that Linus understands the meaning of the word regression in this context better than you.
by ryanx435 9y ago
I'm willing to bet my entire life savings that Linus understands the meaning of the word regression in this context better than you.
- lightedman 9y agoHaving read the entire mailing list thread, no, he is NOT using the word correctly. I suggest you read the entire thread. Regression in the case of code indicates this problem was there before, fixed, and resurfaced. Simply breaking user space is not a regression. It is simply breaking things and nothing more unless this problem occurred once before.
- newen 9y agoAs it's used almost everywhere in coding circles, regression means a patch that made things worse than it was before. No implication of the worse state being there before.