From: John Alvord <jalvo@mbay.net>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: GPLONLY kernel symbols???
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 21:07:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ja1vt430au190m9e2n07bo35pn2rlms5v@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200111130437.fAD4b2j17329@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <Pine.LNX.4.40.0111122052480.1609-100000@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0111122052480.1609-100000@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com>
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 20:58:16 -0800 (PST), Davide Libenzi
<davidel@xmailserver.org> wrote:
>On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
>> And one of the very first things that document says that coding style
>> is very personal and he doesn't want to force his views on others.
>> So, as a symbolic gesture, I printed out and burned that document.
>
>Richard, I fully agree with you that coding style is very personal and
>everyone is trying to prove that one style is better than onther one is
>very likely dumb.
>Nevertheless you've to agree that having a common coding style inside a
>project "helps" lesser the fatigue the brain has to sustain to "parse" the
>code.
>Even if my "native" coding style is slight different from the lk I'm very
>happy to work on a project that has a common style, don't you agree ?
The best programmer I ever knew told me that if you couldn't fake and
utilize another programmer's style... you were only an amateur.
john alvord
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-13 5:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-16 16:27 Christoph Lameter
2001-10-16 17:07 ` John Levon
2001-10-16 17:22 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-17 2:17 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-17 4:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2001-10-17 5:54 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-17 6:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2001-10-17 18:28 ` Gerhard Mack
2001-10-17 19:34 ` Wayne Whitney
2001-10-17 21:31 ` pierre
2001-10-17 20:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-10-17 19:14 ` David Lang
2001-10-17 20:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-10-17 19:20 ` David Lang
2001-10-17 22:02 ` pierre
2001-10-18 13:45 ` M. R. Brown
2001-10-21 16:05 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-18 13:32 ` M. R. Brown
2001-10-17 19:34 ` Ben Greear
2001-10-17 20:18 ` pierre
2001-10-17 14:15 ` John Levon
2001-11-13 2:57 ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-13 3:21 ` Dave Jones
2001-11-13 3:24 ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-13 3:53 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-13 3:58 ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-13 4:10 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-13 4:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-11-13 9:57 ` [OT] Coding Style (was: Re: GPLONLY kernel symbols???) Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-11-28 22:35 ` GPLONLY kernel symbols??? Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-11-13 4:21 ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-13 4:36 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-13 4:49 ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-13 10:46 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-11-13 4:37 ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-13 4:49 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-13 4:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-11-13 4:58 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-11-13 5:07 ` John Alvord [this message]
2001-11-28 22:41 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-11-29 0:35 ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-11-29 5:04 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-11-13 5:00 ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-13 5:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-11-13 5:29 ` Robert Love
2001-11-13 5:23 ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-13 5:44 ` Erik Andersen
2001-11-13 5:56 ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-13 5:03 ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-13 5:27 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-13 5:35 ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-13 5:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-11-13 10:01 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-13 10:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-11-13 13:47 ` Dave Jones
2001-11-13 16:54 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-13 17:17 ` Dave Jones
2001-11-15 10:03 ` [PATCH] mtrr (was Re: GPLONLY kernel symbols???) Paul Gortmaker
2001-11-13 10:48 ` GPLONLY kernel symbols??? Martin Dalecki
2001-11-13 9:52 ` Roman Zippel
2001-11-13 4:05 ` Jeff Garzik
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