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
next prev 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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