Sadly, that’s not code Linus wrote. Nor one he merged. (It’s from git, copied from rsync, committed by Junio)
You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?
here you go, linux 0.01
Isn’t that from 1991 while the quote is from 1995? If we’re nitpicking maybe we shouldn’t time travel 🤓
Damn it Time Patrol! You can’t stop me!
- Time Troll
I mean it was 0.01, at that point he was screwed anyway, and he fixed his program.
He wouldn’t make that statement unless he experienced the horror himself.
Now, if he still does it these days…
Plus it shows three levels of indentation. Well… there is the extra one created by the compiler directives, but do they really count?
rules aren’t there to be enforced, they’re there so that when you break them you take a second to think about why.
