From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:05:53 +1000 Message-ID: From: Prof Brucee To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a113cefca5f707c051b9dd393 Subject: Re: [9fans] Has Linux jumped the shark? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 61b1e048-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a113cefca5f707c051b9dd393 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Look what I started. And All That Clever Code ... Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. =E2=80=94 Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger in *The Elements of Programming Style* . On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 9:19 PM, Ingo Krabbe wrote: > Actually not all bugs are fixed, some are introduced as a feature > > http://intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/games/credits/space.html#hawk > > > > On 24 July 2015 at 04:54, Prof Brucee wrote: > > > >> has Linux with the release of 4.0 finally jumped the shark. > > > > > > Since it's called "Hurr Durr I'ma Sheep", I thought I'd ask a celebrity > > what he thought of it. > > The response was much as I'd expected: http://goo.gl/ZefDFV > > Others simply said that "it was baaad". > > > > I'm amused that as usual, dynamic patching of kernel source, like > replacing > > dynamic libraries, is presented uniformly as a way to fix bugs everywhe= re > > quickly, because we all know that bugs always are fixed and never > > introduced, and being able to capture a kernel without rebooting is nev= er > > of practical interest. > --001a113cefca5f707c051b9dd393 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Look what I started. And All That Clever Code ...

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the = code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as po= ssible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2= =A0=E2=80=94=C2=A0Brian W. Kernighan=C2=A0and P. J. Plauger in=C2=A0The Elements of Programming Style.


On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 = at 9:19 PM, Ingo Krabbe <ikrabbe.ask@gmail.com> wrote:
Actually not all bugs are fixed, some are = introduced as a feature

http://intellivisionlives.com/blu= esky/games/credits/space.html#hawk


> On 24 July 2015 at 04:54, Prof Brucee <prof.brucee@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> has Linux with the release of 4.0 finally jumped the shark.
>
>
> Since it's called "Hurr Durr I'ma Sheep", I thought = I'd ask a celebrity
> what he thought of it.
> The response was much as I'd expected: http://goo.gl/ZefDFV
> Others simply said that= "it was baaad".
>
> I'm amused that as usual, dynamic patching of kernel source, like = replacing
> dynamic libraries, is presented uniformly as a way to fix bugs everywh= ere
> quickly, because we all know that bugs always are fixed and never
> introduced, and being able to capture a kernel without rebooting is ne= ver
> of practical interest.

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