From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:11:00 GMT
Subject: Re: How do get a specific version of a particular file?
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.0.82.0702272004370.29426@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702271643080.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> In real algebra (what in the US is apparently called "abstract algebra", 
> and not to be confused with just "arithmetic with unknowns"), you do 
> generalized arithmetic operations, and using "+" and "-" and "*" to mean 
> arbitrary things that depend on the stuff you operate on, and doing 
> different things depending on whether you talk about a "set of commits" 
> (log) or talking about a "set of source code" (diff), makes total sense 
> mathematically.

/me wonders why Linux wasn't written in C++ with overloaded operators...


Nicolas