rules aren’t there to be enforced, they’re there so that when you break them you take a second to think about why.
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
He wouldn’t make that statement unless he experienced the horror himself.
Now, if he still does it these days…
Isn’t that from 1991 while the quote is from 1995? If we’re nitpicking maybe we shouldn’t time travel 🤓
I mean it was 0.01, at that point he was screwed anyway, and he fixed his program.
Plus it shows three levels of indentation. Well… there is the extra one created by the compiler directives, but do they really count?
