On Apr 15, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
It's a really good thing, and it means that if somebody shows that
your
code is flawed in some way (by, for example, making a patch that
people
claim gets better behaviour or numbers), any *good* programmer that
actually cares about his code will obviously suddenly be very
motivated to
out-do the out-doer!
"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes
deserves to be called a scholar."
--Don Foster, "literary sleuth", on retracting his attribution of "A
Funerall Elegye" to Shakespeare (it's more likely John Ford's work).
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