Linus' idea of "good taste" code

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 27 October 2016 at 14:54:59 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
>
> I'd like to point to Joel Spolsky excellent article "Five 
> Worlds" - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FiveWorlds.html
>
> TL;DR: Joel Spolsky argues that different types("worlds") of 
> developments require different qualities and different 
> priorities, both from the code and the process. Because of 
> that, advice given by experts of one world does not necessary 
> apply to other worlds, even if the expert is really smart and 
> experienced and even if the advice was learned with great pain.
>
> Linus Torvald is undoubtedly smart and experienced, but he 
> belongs to the world of low-level kernels and filesystems code. 
> Just because such code would be considered "tasteless" there 
> doesn't mean it's tasteless everywhere.

Not easy to be smart with Javascript ;)