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Posted Sep 13, 2007 15:16 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Gits by ncm
Parent article: Quotes of the week

It's your loss. git really is terribly good. (And no, I didn't agree with
a while pile of Linus's C++ comments, but ye gods! look at what he was
responding to!)


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Posted Sep 16, 2007 12:07 UTC (Sun) by njs (guest, #40338) [Link]

> ye gods! look at what he was responding to!

That's the irony of his closing slam at monotone -- as a monotone hacker, I actually sympathize with most of his earlier comments, even if their phrasing is a bit over-the-top. Beating off the OOlier-than-thou crowd with sticks can get tiresome at times. It's unfortunate that a nice rant ends with what's clearly question-begging -- he uses monotone to support his claim that C++ makes projects unmaintainable, and he knows that monotone is unmaintainable because it uses C++...

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Posted Sep 16, 2007 17:05 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

And yet, as others in this thread have pointed out, he uses KDE, which has
as time has gone by expanded the subset of C++ it uses until it
encompasses most of the language and libraries...

Yet KDE seems to be maintainable :)

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