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From: Leon Woestenberg <leonw@mailcan.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Insults in the kernel-sources
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:11:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40C8B26D.7040404@mailcan.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200406102053.48615.Tobias.Hirning@gmx.de>

Hello Tobias,

Tobias Hirning wrote:
> have you ever tried a 
> grep "insult" -i -r ./*
>  in the sourcetree of the kernel?
> (insult must be replaced by an insult)
> Haven't?
> So do and think about, because the you can find to much of insults in 
> the sources.

This is a feature. I makes reading the source code enjoyable even for
people who do not know sh*t about C programming. And that's not an
insult :-)

I think some of the insults need updating though. We do not want to
support old insults (although Linux is well-known for excellent support 
for legacy entities).

Regards,

Leon.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-10 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-10 18:53 Insults in the kernel-sources Tobias Hirning
2004-06-10 19:02 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-06-10 19:16   ` areversat
2004-06-10 19:11 ` Leon Woestenberg [this message]
2004-06-10 19:23 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-06-10 20:19   ` alan
2004-06-10 21:26     ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-06-10 23:17     ` walt
2004-06-10 22:44       ` alan
2004-06-11  0:36         ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-06-10 23:52       ` Vadim Lobanov
2004-06-10 23:58         ` Tim Hockin
2004-06-11  0:34           ` James Buchanan
2004-06-10 23:47             ` alan
2004-06-11  0:38             ` Vadim Lobanov
2004-06-11  0:07     ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-06-10 23:41       ` alan
2004-06-11  8:45         ` Profanity " L A Walsh
2004-06-11  7:02       ` Insults " Måns Rullgård
2004-06-14 13:46   ` Tobias Hirning
2004-06-14 19:39     ` Patrick Finnegan
2004-06-10 19:23 ` viro
2004-06-10 20:04 ` Paul P Komkoff Jr
2004-06-11 15:43 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-06-12  2:48 ` Rik van Riel
2004-06-12  6:37   ` John Bradford
2004-06-12 12:47     ` Richard B. Johnson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-10 19:43 Sean Fao
2004-06-11 15:56 ` nardelli

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