Linux Kernel Design and Why Python is Rad

[Ric Werme]

Jonathan Gardner <jgardn at alumni.washington.edu> writes:

>Check out this link: http://kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=398

>Linus Torvalds on design: "Nothing successful has every been designed. It has 
>evolved."

>Everyone else: "No wait a minute, that's not what this book says! And that's 
>not what my teacher said!"

Everyone else has not read "The Mythical Man-Month"?  It states quite
clearly that you should "Plan to throw one away."  It's still one of the
few books on system design that's worth reading.

Jeez, kids these days....
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