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Hint: someone saying that you should rewrite your project in his own favorite language is NOT someone that you should allow to help or contribute.
by bronson 15y ago
Hint: someone saying that you should rewrite your project in his own favorite language is NOT someone that you should allow to help or contribute.
- nxn 15y agoTorvalds' post to me looked to attack C++ programmers in general. I'm not ignoring that the initial comment was pretty useless, but even so there are better ways to handle those than the way he chose.
- trustfundbaby 15y agoDoesn't mean he should insult them ... at some point in a person's life, they should be above that, but that's just my opinion.
- burgerbrain 15y agoLive is too short to justify not having a little chuckle at the expense of your detractors.
- richardw 15y agoVery few programmers spring fully-formed into kernel-level hackers. The correct place to filter is at the code level, not the person level. The 'right' people have the ability to change their approach until the code passes the filter.