On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 22:25 +0530, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: > Its good that we have one of the most senior person on mailing list.
senior only in age - not in wisdom ;-). one point I think there is a lot of confusion about is in the meaning of 'talk is cheap, show me the code'. The original message is here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/25/132 and linus's explanation is here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/26/52 as you can see, this is a discussion between two kernel programmers about the most efficient way of doing something. In this case linus evokes something called 'proof of concept' which is very common in every field of endeavour. At times it is not possible to decide which approach is right without actually building a model and testing it. Any engineer could understand this. Note, linus is talking to a fellow kernel programmer. He is NOT telling him to act and not talk. He is NOT telling him that code writers are gods and everyone else is useless. He is just saying that in this particular case the argument cannot be resolved without actually coding it. -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com Coimbatore LUG rox http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/ -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
