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Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments (theregister.co.uk)
An anonymous reader shares a report on The Register: Linus Torvalds has unleashed a sweary rant on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, labelling some members "brain-damaged" for their preferred method of punctuating comments. "Can we please get rid of the brain-damaged stupid networking comment syntax style, PLEASE?" the Linux Lord asked last Friday. "If the networking people cannot handle the pure awesomeness that is a balanced and symmetric traditional multi-line C style comments, then instead of the disgusting unbalanced crap that you guys use now, please just go all the way to the C++ mode."Torvalds despises the following two comment-punctuation styles (with his comments):/* This is disgusting drug-induced
* crap, and should die
*/ and:/* This is also very nasty
* and visually unbalanced */Torvalds prefers the following two styles:/* This is a comment */ and:/*
* This is also a comment, but it can now be cleanly
* split over multiple lines
*/
* crap, and should die
*/ and:/* This is also very nasty
* and visually unbalanced */Torvalds prefers the following two styles:/* This is a comment */ and:/*
* This is also a comment, but it can now be cleanly
* split over multiple lines
*/
"Us" being the herd of luddites who did not learn object oriented programming in school and are too special to bother learning it now.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
I'd remind him from the real world that he should be glad there are comments at all.
Real programmers don't comment. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
[ Linus will get it once he gets some real experience. :-)
Or... he could grow up and concentrate on things that really matter. ]
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
If you're the kind of employee so sensitive that a little public swearing makes you cry, then there's plenty of other less demanding jobs for you to take.