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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff-cache path restriction fix.
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 10:31:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050525083143.GA27025@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505241814220.2307@ppc970.osdl.org>


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> Hmm. According to that logic, ">" and ">=" is superfluous.
> 
> Also, what language do you actually speak? Every human language I know 
> (admittedly, apart from Finnish they are all related) tends to say 
> things like "if you have more than four children, you're in trouble", 
> rather than saying "if four is less than the number of children you 
> have".

[ add Hungarian to that short list - there it's a pretty natural thing 
to say "if four is less than the number of ..." in everyday life :-| 
Interestingly, having an insanely complex wacko weird language helps 
kids learn abstraction early, and results in an unusually high per 
capita proportion of scientists. If China adopted Finnish as a second 
language the global domination of the US would be history in 50 years
;-) ]

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-25  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-25  0:47 [PATCH] diff-cache path restriction fix Junio C Hamano
2005-05-25  1:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-25  1:05   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-25  1:24     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-25  1:49       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-25  2:16         ` Russ Allbery
2005-05-25  2:33           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-25  3:04         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-25  3:22           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-25  9:06           ` Ingo Molnar
2005-05-25 17:07             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-25 19:14             ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-25 19:17               ` Thomas Glanzmann
2005-05-25 20:31             ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-05-28  7:55         ` [OT] if (4 < number_of_children) you're in trouble Junio C Hamano
2005-05-25  8:31       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2005-05-25 16:02     ` [PATCH] diff-cache path restriction fix Florian Weimer

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