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?
Plus it shows three levels of indentation. Well… there is the extra one created by the compiler directives, but do they really count?
here you go, linux 0.01
He wouldn’t make that statement unless he experienced the horror himself.
Now, if he still does it these days…
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
rules aren’t there to be enforced, they’re there so that when you break them you take a second to think about why.
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.
