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Re:Portability Is Reliability by not2b on Thursday May 06, 2021 @02:28AM (#27059823)
Eric Raymond, not Linus Torvalds, said the "given enough eyeballs" quote. Unfortunately there aren't enough eyeballs, so bugs linger for years anyway.
Re:Portability Is Reliability by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday May 06, 2021 @07:10AM (#27061511)
I don't know, lately I've been thinking maybe there are plenty of eyeballs and there's just too much code. Do things really need to be as big and complicated as they are?
Re:Portability Is Reliability by throwanone on Friday May 07, 2021 @04:26AM (#27073672)
"Move fast and break things" induces bad code. Pascal's quip that "I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter" applies to code too; it takes time and effort to make code as concise as possible.