From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Henning Schmiedehausen <hps@intermeta.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question about style when converting from K&R to ANSI C.
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 08:16:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030603151617.GH20413@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1054651445.25694.70.camel@forge.intermeta.de>
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 04:44:05PM +0200, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote:
> The footnote was a non-native language speakers' attempt at self-irony.
> If normal people think about development environments beyond vi, they
> would consider VisualStudio an improvement. Or eclipse.
> Trust me, "whitespace" or "tabs" are the smallest of your problems
> there.
> Ah well, silly me, trying humour on LKLM. ;-)
> Regards
> Henning
We're not normal people. We're UNIX kernel hackers. We often do things
in crusty old ways.
Dead serious. Mandating emacs and/or some UNIX-based Visual C++
workalike in order to cope with utter garbage code formatting is not
going to fly.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-03 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-01 5:56 Question about style when converting from K&R to ANSI C Steven Cole
2003-06-01 6:39 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-06-01 6:43 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-06-01 13:14 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-01 19:10 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-06-01 13:26 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-01 13:49 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-06-01 14:06 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-01 14:22 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-06-01 15:02 ` Steven Cole
2003-06-01 15:09 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-01 15:50 ` Steven Cole
2003-06-01 16:02 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-01 16:18 ` Steven Cole
2003-06-01 23:01 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-06-01 23:30 ` Steven Cole
2003-06-03 3:29 ` Robert White
2003-06-01 16:04 ` Jonathan Lundell
2003-06-01 16:11 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-01 16:46 ` Steven Cole
2003-06-01 16:52 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-01 17:18 ` Steven Cole
2003-06-02 12:39 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-06-03 3:15 ` Robert White
2003-06-01 13:53 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2003-06-02 2:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-02 2:21 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-02 2:26 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-06-02 3:15 ` Steven Cole
2003-06-02 15:54 ` Erik Hensema
2003-06-03 12:32 ` Martin Waitz
2003-06-03 12:45 ` Dave Jones
2003-06-03 12:51 ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-03 13:18 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-06-03 13:27 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-06-03 13:39 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-03 14:44 ` Henning Schmiedehausen
2003-06-03 15:16 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-06-03 15:25 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-06-03 15:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-03 15:40 ` Randy.Dunlap
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2003-06-02 16:09 ` Pascal Schmidt
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