Re: Licensing and the library version of git

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 27, 2006, 20:38 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0607272237460.29667@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0607271245200.11436@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>

Hi

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, David Lang wrote:

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> On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, David Lang 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.
> > 
> > I think people sometimes put too much emphasis on ABI's.
> 
> I was careful to say aPi, not aBi :-)

All Linus said about ABIs is true for APIs, too. The only difference between the two is, that people depend on the sacredness of ABIs even more than on APIs.

Ciao, Dscho