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Re: What does "when in doubt do it opposite than certain other pcb tool" stand for?

 

On 26/11/2019 20:46, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
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> It was a joke in the same way that "Never trust the autorouter" is a
> joke.  And like most good jokes, there is an uncomfortable truth about
> it.

Indeed ;-) (says the author of the aforementioned joke...)

It's a pun on a quote on the design of Git attributed to Linus Torvalds,
something like "look at CVS/SVN and do exactly opposite".

He didn't mean CVS/SVN were bad - just wanted to go his own way, not
reusing solutions from these tools.

Tom


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