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Linus Torvalds in sweary rant about punctuation in kernel comments

Captain DaFt

Re: Well there is a point to this

"In my experience, you read the comments and then realise that the comments have little or no bearing on the actual code..."

Oh, Oh! You mean this one?

/* I wrote this kludge because the boss said if the code wasn't ready to ship tomorrow my ass was fired. I'm starting a better job at a better company next month and I'd prefer to collect a paycheck until then. To whoever gets my job and has to maintain this --- May God have mercy on your soul! */

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