Re: [tlug] Alan Cox's remark at Fosdem

[Tod McQuillin <devin@example.com>]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Josh Glover wrote:

> He *is* telling the truth. I remember a telling comment from the VM
> codebase from my Linux kernel hacking class that said something like:
> "you are not meant to understand this code".

Actually this far predates Linux, having first appeared in Unix V6.

http://www.faqs.org/docs/jargon/Y/You-are-not-expected-to-understand-this.html

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Tod