Kernel prepatch 3.11-rc4 [LWN.net]

Kernel prepatch 3.11-rc4

Posted Aug 5, 2013 13:14 UTC (Mon) by error27 (subscriber, #8346)
In reply to: Kernel prepatch 3.11-rc4 by hummassa
Parent article: Kernel prepatch 3.11-rc4

Messy code is like a dripping faucet or a toothache. It shouldn't make you irritable but it does. People don't go around talking like Yoda, it's annoying.

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Kernel prepatch 3.11-rc4

Posted Aug 5, 2013 14:22 UTC (Mon) by hummassa (guest, #307) [Link] (2 responses)

My native language (Brazilian Portuguese, the "last flower of the Latium, uncultured and beautiful") has an olympic-gymnast flexibility towards the positioning of the elements in a phrase, and that flexibility has many poetic uses. So, to many poetry-inclined Brazucas like me, it's probably not as annoying.

Kernel prepatch 3.11-rc4

Posted Aug 5, 2013 15:51 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

Lots of synthetic languages (Slavic ones, most notably) have completely flexible word order. Yoda-speak sounds contrived in Russian, but not that much unusual - similar sentence constructions are used in official speech and in poetry.

Still, Yoda-assignment looks somehow unappealing.

Kernel prepatch 3.11-rc4

Posted Aug 6, 2013 7:16 UTC (Tue) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

Pretty much, a yoda-assignement would not work at all :-P