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Linus Rants About C Programming Semantics (iu.edu)

Posted by Soulskill on from the old-man-and-the-C dept.

jones_supa writes: "Christ people. This is just sh*t," begins Linus Torvalds in his message on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Torvalds is grumpy because some new code added to the IPv6 subsystem has created conflicts. "The conflict I get is due to stupid new gcc header file crap," he writes. "But what makes me upset is that the crap is for completely bogus reasons." The new improved code uses fancy stuff that wants magical built-in compiler support and has silly wrapper functions for when it doesn't exist. Linus provides an alternative that contains a single and understandable conditional, which looks cleaner and generates better code.

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  1. The poor women by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    How will the poor women of open source cope?

    1. Re:The poor women by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      How will the poor women of open source cope?

      Well, if history is any indicator, then AmiMoJo (196126) will spend most of the day shitposting her SJW agenda on slashdot.

  2. Gosh Linux is so cool.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    But does he have to be such a dick about it?

  3. It's Justified by MagickalMyst · · Score: 1, Troll

    So he rants and raves and bitches and moans... It shows that he is passionate and serious about what he does.

    Now, if only Bill Gates would learn to rant and rave passionately about the quality of his product - instead of counting his coins and pretending to be a philanthropist.

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    Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.