Sadly, that’s not code Linus wrote. Nor one he merged. (It’s from git, copied from rsync, committed by Junio)
You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?
here you go, linux 0.01
I mean it was 0.01, at that point he was screwed anyway, and he fixed his program.
Isn’t that from 1991 while the quote is from 1995? If we’re nitpicking maybe we shouldn’t time travel 🤓
Damn it Time Patrol! You can’t stop me!
- Time Troll
He wouldn’t make that statement unless he experienced the horror himself.
Now, if he still does it these days…
One nit: whatever IDE is displaying single-character surrogates for
==
and!=
needs to stop. In a world where one could literally type those Unicode symbols in, and break a build, I think everyone is better off seeing the actual syntax.I think it’s a lineature. FiraCide does that for example, and I like it very much. My compiler and lsp will tell me if there is a bad char there. Besides, the linea tires take the same space as two regular characters, so you can tell the difference.
It’s not the 90s anymore. My editor can look nice.