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-- OriginalOwner_ [tinyurl.com] writes:

from the almost-no-cuss-words-this-time dept.

On the Linux Kernel Mailing List, Linus Torvalds has released another rant.

El Reg reports [theregister.co.uk]

"Can we please get rid of the brain-damaged stupid networking comment syntax style, PLEASE?" the Linux Lord asked [iu.edu] [July 8].

The Benevolent Dictator For Life gives 4 examples which he considers within norms and 2 more that are guaranteed to raise his wrath.

"I'm sure that looks really nice if you are out of your mind on LSD, and have nothing better to do than to worry about the right alignment of the asterisks."

Torvalds wonders if this kind of comment punctuation mess means it's time "... to start moving the whole kernel over to the C++ style, it's been many many years since we had compatibility issues and we are all used to it by now, even if we weren't all fans originally."

For now, he writes "I really don't understand why the networking people think that their particularly ugly styles are fine. They are the most visually unbalanced version of _all_ the common comment styles, and have no actual advantages."

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