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Quotes of the week

Posted Mar 15, 2007 8:32 UTC (Thu) by HenrikH (guest, #31152)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by martin@zeroscale.com
Parent article: Quotes of the week

Linus is as ironic as always, if you read the thread you will find a later comment from him that is more to the truth:

"Well, since Rusty's macro was hoddible *anyway*, I don't think I'd apply
it as-is. Breaking icc for something that ugly and not-very-important
simply makes no sense.
"

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Quotes of the week

Posted Mar 15, 2007 12:01 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

Given how Rusty's submission was couched "here's a special gcc thing we don't use yet" I presumed it was a joke. Wrong.

The eventual implementation is good style. The names of the pieces clearly say what they do, and are bite sized enough that you can confirm them. The first take was pretty WTF.