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> I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that if he was writing a 'normal' application or even a compiler he'd be tempted to use some subset of C++ or maybe
by luriel 14y ago
> I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that if he was writing a 'normal' application or even a compiler he'd be tempted to use some subset of C++ or maybe even Java.
And you would be wrong:
http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus
- emmelaich 14y agoWell maybe. We won't and cannot know, because Linus will never be programming websites for a bank or writing games for Windows. My feeble point is that the kernel (and git) are computer programs for computer people doing computer stuff. Subsurface I'll give you. Mostly.