Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*?

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds _at_ xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12 Jan 2003, Robert Love wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 15:22, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > No, you've been brainwashed by CS people who thought that Niklaus
> > Wirth actually knew what he was talking about. He didn't. He
> > doesn't have a frigging clue.
> 
> I thought Edsger Dijkstra coined the "gotos are evil" bit in his
> structured programming push?

Yeah, he did, but he's dead, and we shouldn't talk ill of the dead. So 
these days I can only rant about Niklaus Wirth, who took the "structured 
programming" thing and enforced it in his languages (Pascal and Modula-2), 
and thus forced his evil on untold generations of poor CS students who had 
to learn langauges that weren't actually useful for real work.

(Yeah, yeah, most _practical_ versions of Pascal ended up having all the 
stuff necessary to break structure, but as you may be able to tell, I was 
one of the unwashed masses who had to write in "standard Pascal" in my 
youth. I'm scarred for life).

			Linus

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