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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@drgw.net>,
	Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Domian Validation (Re: 2.5.1 - intermediate bio stuff..)
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:44:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011217224454.Y23507@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011218000432.C25200@altus.drgw.net> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112172210470.2416-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112172210470.2416-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:12:21PM -0800

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:12:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> No. Sound software engineering principles is to design good interfaces,
> and make the low level code adhere to them.

Last week, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I _am_ claiming that the people who think you "design" software are
> seriously simplifying the issue, and don't actually realize how they
> themselves work.

So which is it?
-- 
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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-12-18  6:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-17  0:11 2.5.1 - intermediate bio stuff Linus Torvalds
2001-12-17  2:21 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-17  2:33   ` Dave Jones
2001-12-17  2:52   ` Craig Christophel
2001-12-17 19:11 ` Domian Validation (Re: 2.5.1 - intermediate bio stuff..) Andre Hedrick
2001-12-18  6:04   ` Troy Benjegerdes
2001-12-18  6:12     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-18  6:39       ` Troy Benjegerdes
2001-12-18  6:44       ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2001-12-18 12:28         ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-18 13:37           ` [lkml] " Ian Soboroff
2001-12-18 16:43         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-18 20:38           ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-18 12:52       ` Matthias Andree

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