They LOOK clean and nice, _because_ all these companies remove all
toughness from the sources, before it gets delivered. - But this is like
a big lie to me.
Linux is in contrary honest. We don't have anything to hide. - Remember,
you get the code for free...
So if the reader can't stand the real life of a programmer, he should
IMHO go fishing somewhere else!
What the "crudeness" of Linux concerns:
It is nearly impossible to keep within such a large project a continouus
high level of good prgramming style. Especially, when all the developers
are scattered all over the world. - I really admire Linus for this!
(Lifting my hat and bowing down towards Linus!) - But: Linux is getter
better with every Release! In contrary to any (..hmmm don't want to
use names... - But it starts very small and end very squishy... ;) )
big company that sells OSes.
And... Of course I meant M$-software is: "paid-too-much-for" ! :-)))))
Linux is for free. Anybody who pays more, pays too much. - It's that simple! :-)
+> > You can't expect that they all use a "plain nice high-school- english".
+> > So you can't expect the Linux-sources to be a correct reading for a six
+> > year old girl.
+> >
+>
+> You can't expect english of any standard from the devlopers that havn't
+> been taught english, and you can't expect perfectly spelt, and
+> grammatically correct english from those of us who have been taught it.
I don't expected this. It's OK for me ! :-)))))
+> > Leave the comments in, they are for those who need them and kick out
+> > only the dirty part, which may reach the day-by-day-simple-end-user.
+> >
+> Hmm, I do think that something like "fucking Sun blows me" sais a lot
+> less than something like "Bugger, Sun have rewriten the standard, pity
+> they didn't tell anyone, again...."
Wellll...
You are of course right. Your sentence says a lot more. - But it doesn't reflect
the programmer's feelings, when he/she (? ;-) ) found it out.
He/She was angry (for a good reason I beleive), and as usual, when you still
have a lot more to do, it's late in the night (early in the morning ? ;-) ),
you don't want to care any longer, but you want to tell (?) someone, who reaches
this part of code, ever, just _WHAT_ _A_ _BIG_ _BLACK_ _BULLSH*T_ you had to fight
with. - Whenenver you'll read your own lines of comment, you'll easyly remember
what happened. ;-)
+> > On the other hand, I assume, you'd find some of these expressions in
+> > the M$-Sources, too.
+>
+> Nope, if they don't like the way everyone else does things, they do there
+> own thing, and let everyone else support them ....
+>
So they do their own, _BIG_ _BLACK_ BULLSH*T_, and let everybody else support
them. - You are right! :-))))))
+> > :-)
+> >
+> > Regards,
+> >
+> > Herbert
+> Bryn
+> --
+> PGP key pass phrase forgotten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence
+> again :( | initiated.
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+> | blank, apart from this text ;-)
+> \____________________________________
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Herbert
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