From: Ingo Molnar Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 08:31:43 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff-cache path restriction fix. Message-ID: <20050525083143.GA27025@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: * Linus Torvalds wrote: > Hmm. According to that logic, ">" and ">=" is superfluous. > > Also, what language do you actually speak? Every human language I know > (admittedly, apart from Finnish they are all related) tends to say > things like "if you have more than four children, you're in trouble", > rather than saying "if four is less than the number of children you > have". [ add Hungarian to that short list - there it's a pretty natural thing to say "if four is less than the number of ..." in everyday life :-| Interestingly, having an insanely complex wacko weird language helps kids learn abstraction early, and results in an unusually high per capita proportion of scientists. If China adopted Finnish as a second language the global domination of the US would be history in 50 years ;-) ] Ingo