From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
Cc: yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPV4: spelling correction
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:51:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040210105124.61431b9b.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <402926A0.20809@us.ibm.com>
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:44:48 -0800
Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> I strongly object. Strongly and strenuously. DaveM, please,
> please, please, leave those golden lines alone. The original
> from Alexey is a work of art, humor, character and intelligence.
I totally agree. In documentation and things for end users, fine.
We can typo correct till the end of time. But for comments meant
for programmers, let's keep it lively and humorous and sometimes
flat out grammatically wrong. This is what gives it flavor makes
it our's.
Often times I can tell who wrote what merely by the phrasing style
of the comments. That's incredibly cool :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-10 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-10 18:28 [PATCH] IPV4: spelling correction YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-02-10 18:30 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-02-10 18:33 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-02-10 18:44 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2004-02-10 18:51 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-02-10 19:03 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-02-11 12:07 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2004-02-11 13:41 ` jamal
2004-02-11 16:38 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2004-02-10 18:48 ` [PATCH] IPV4: spelling correction (Take 3) YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-02-10 18:34 ` [PATCH] IPV4: spelling correction Chris Wright
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