From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:37:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix threaded grep for machines with only one cpu
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1002161529411.1946@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1002162118060.8642@intel-tinevez-2-302>

On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > > Notice how your version (xyzzy) broke the cascade of if..elseif..else.
> > > 
> > > Don't they teach this in schools anymore?
> > 
> > What do you expect from academia?  School and real life are still too 
> > often disconnected.
> 
> Actually, you know, I am quite happy that they do not teach _that_ 
> particular code template. It is enough that I have to suffer this ugliness 
> from oldtimers, no need for newtimers piling onto this particular pile.

Unfortunately the real world is not without its share of ugliness.
And newtimers need to be better prepared to cope when they get loose.

I guess that's one of the reasons I skipped many lectures at Uni...
to hack on Linux 1.0.x instead.


Nicolas