From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make "git reset" a builtin. (incomplete)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:10:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708221607590.30176@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85ir77ky0u.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, David Kastrup wrote:
> >
> > But your statement is provably wrong. Just *look* at well-maintained
> > projects that have extended way past their original design and usage
> > model. A lot of them are in C.
>
> You mean like Emacs which is mostly scripted in Elisp? Or the Gimp
> which is mainly scripted using script-fu?
No. I mean standard C code projects. Like the kernel. Like a huge class of
other projects that are C. Not scripts.
Big, huge, projects are all done in C, and they are well-maintained.
Scripting is not the rule at all. And it is silly to say that regular
all-C projects need to have scripting.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-22 23:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-22 12:48 [PATCH] Make "git reset" a builtin. (incomplete) Carlos Rica
2007-08-22 13:00 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-22 13:37 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-08-22 14:29 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-22 14:49 ` Mike Hommey
2007-08-22 15:02 ` Chris Shoemaker
2007-08-22 15:41 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-22 16:07 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-08-22 16:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-22 17:17 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-22 19:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-22 19:36 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-22 19:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-22 22:25 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-22 23:10 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2007-08-22 23:39 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-23 1:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-23 0:24 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-08-23 1:15 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-08-23 1:40 ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-23 3:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-23 4:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-23 9:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-22 21:34 ` Reece Dunn
2007-08-23 9:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-23 10:20 ` Theodore Tso
2007-08-23 10:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-23 10:55 ` David Tweed
2007-08-23 11:24 ` Theodore Tso
2007-08-23 11:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-23 16:30 ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-23 11:25 ` Reece Dunn
2007-08-23 20:26 ` Alex Riesen
2007-08-23 21:14 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-23 21:33 ` Alex Riesen
2007-08-23 22:05 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-22 17:21 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-08-23 9:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-23 15:19 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-08-22 21:19 ` Reece Dunn
2007-08-23 9:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-23 18:40 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-08-23 2:05 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-08-22 13:42 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-22 22:28 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-22 14:27 ` Andy Parkins
2007-08-22 14:57 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-08-22 16:20 ` Alex Riesen
2007-08-23 11:14 ` Johannes Schindelin
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