Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

Matthew Kirkwood
2001-06-19T16:27:28Z

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Larry McVoy wrote:

> ``Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You
> like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.''

This is oft-quoted but has, IMO, the property of not actually
making any sense.

Besides, it offers the unhealthy among us an excuse for bad
design.

Matthew.