Re: Linus Torvalds: ‘I’m Not a Pr ogrammer Anymore’

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On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 4:23 PM Navin Dhanuka <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Linus Torvalds, Linux’s creator, doesn’t make speeches anymore. But, what
> he does do, and he did again at Open Source Summit Europe in Lyon France is
> have public conversations with his friend Dirk Hohndel, VMware’s Chief Open
> Source Officer. In this keynote discussion, Torvalds revealed that he
> doesn’t think he’s a programmer anymore.
>
> So what does the person everyone thinks of as a programmer’s programmer do
> instead? Torvalds explained:
>
> “I don’t know coding at all anymore. Most of the code I write is in my
> e-mails. So somebody sends me a patch … I [reply with] pseudo code. I’m so
> used to editing patches now I sometimes edit patches and send out the patch
> without having ever tested it. I literally wrote it in the mail and say, ‘I
> think this is how it should be done,’ but this is what I do, I am not a
> programmer.”
>
> So, Hohndel asked, “What is your job?” Torvalds replied, “I read and write
> a lot of email. My job really is, in the end, is to say ‘no.’ Somebody has
> to say ‘no’ to [this patch or that pull request]. And because developers
> know that if they do something that I’ll say ‘no’ to, they do a better job
> of writing the code.”
>
> Read More: Zdnet.com
> <https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-im-not-a-programmer-anymore/
> >
>
> --
> Navin Dhanuka
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> is more important than any other thing. :: Abraham Lincoln ::
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