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    I don’t think Linus should be the guy to go to for arguments here. His rants are horribly subjective and immature. He actually does have a few good points but they are so deeply buried (below “bullshit” as well as bullshit) that they are very hard to find. Commented Dec 22, 2010 at 14:55
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    Haha, that was a good laugh. I never want to meet this guy. Commented Dec 22, 2010 at 15:40
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    Linus reminds me of a very talented roofer who's never hung sheetrock, but calls the sheetrock guys pansies because they use screws instead of nails. Commented Dec 22, 2010 at 17:09
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    I agree with @Daniel, If there is someone that can talk about pushing the boundaries of hardware is John Carmack creator of doom, quake and other games and founder of Id software. He writes this about c and c++ on a twitt a few months ago: "IMO, good C++ code is better than good C code, but bad C++ can be much, much worse than bad C code." twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/status/26560399301 Commented Dec 22, 2010 at 23:21
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    @bromfiets According to himself, it is: “I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.” Source: git FAQ Commented Jan 20, 2011 at 10:30