September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
13h 39m
English
Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
—Linus Torvalds
The quote at the beginning of the chapter, the essence of which we can summarize as “show me the code” (or SMTC for short), is the final sentence in a short answer that Torvalds gave on a Linux mailing list years ago. The original is here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/25/132. Since then, SMTC has been used often to break up potentially endless discussions that are headed toward analysis/paralysis.
While theory is invaluable, theory without practice is of very little use.
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