Re: Licensing and the library version of git

From: David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>
Date: Jul 27, 2006, 18:42 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0607271140100.11253@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607270936200.4168@g5.osdl.org>

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> (*) I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer
> and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures
> more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers
> worry about data structures and their relationships.

personally I'd add to this that after the data structures are defined and you turn to the code the API is significantly more important then the code itself.

David Lang

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