Re: Coding style - a non-issue

Davide Libenzi
2001-12-01T01:24:30Z

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Mike Castle wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:50:34PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Well, sheer luck, AND:
> > - free availability and _crosspollination_ through sharing of "source
> > code", although biologists call it DNA.
> > - a rather unforgiving user environment, that happily replaces bad
> > versions of us with better working versions and thus culls the herd
> > (biologists often call this "survival of the fittest")
> > - massive undirected parallel development ("trial and error")
>
> Linux is one big genetic algorithms project?

It is more subtle, look better inside :)

- Davide