torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) wrote on 30.11.01 in <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111302048200.1459-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Victor Yodaiken wrote:
> > Here's a characteristic good Linux design method ,( or call it "less than
> > random mutation method" if that makes you feel happy): read the
> > literature, think hard, try something, implement
>
> Hah.
>
> I don't think I've seen very many examples of that particular design
> methodology.
Recently, that seems to get popular in gcc. Sometimes, on gc@gcc.gnu.org,
you'll see a whole thread where people throw one literature reference
after another at each other.
Maybe a whole 3% of the traffic.
MfG Kai
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