Quotes of the week

Too many people seem to think that documentation is the "final" argument. It's not. Not even close. It's a hint and a help, but it's _secondary_ to code. Anybody who doesn't understand that should never be allowed to write code (or documentation, for that matter).

Doing

	unsigned i;

is an act of insane vandalism, punishable by spending five additional years coding in fortran.

Meanwhile, 10 years and counting, the Linux kernel still generates a stupid write IO for every file read that apps do. Fortunately hardware designers will get rid of rotating disks faster than we can fix our glaring process problems in this space - but it's still a bit sad.