Linus & the Lunatics, Part I (Linux Journal) [LWN.net]

Linus & the Lunatics, Part I (Linux Journal)

Posted Nov 25, 2003 5:42 UTC (Tue) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
Parent article: Linus & the Lunatics, Part I (Linux Journal)

"Because I notice that what I'm not actually doing any more is coding
[...] I'm writing this C parser because I decided I needed it and wanted
it."

Those two sentences (a paragraph apart) really sum up the whole open
source movement for me. I also really enjoyed his whole "It's a C parser.
Well, it's actually a whole front end, because there's not much more to
it... Well, okay, it's got a code generator, too, but it's just a little
one, for testing." I'm just waiting to hear how he justifies the
instruction scheduler when he writes one.

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Would you care to elaborate?

Posted Nov 25, 2003 10:25 UTC (Tue) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

I really did not get your point.

Would you care to elaborate?

Posted Nov 25, 2003 21:29 UTC (Tue) by jjstwerff (subscriber, #4082) [Link]

You won't get programs without coding.
Linus tells us that he doens't program that much and that he only writes simple things.....
Like ANSI-C parsers, code checkers and compilers...

That simple stuff for him is way to complex to 99.5% of the rest of the world. But he keeps telling that the real kernel work is a bit too much hassle to do in his spare time ;)

As a job he is managing the project.