J-random reddit user praises Samba code :-).

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Thu May 8 11:48:07 MDT 2014


On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 10:27:14AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> Just thought people would get a kick out
> of this:
> 
> "Where do you find good code to read?"
> 
> http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/250ken/where_do_you_find_good_code_to_read/chco1nk
> 
> "The Samba project source code is well worth looking at. The programmers
> have deep experience and skill. They are doing a hairy task (reverse engineered
> file and print). In a hairy language (C). Yet the code is some of the cleanest
> you'll see. It's even instructive what they decided not to code (such as punting
> all of the packet parsing into a interface description language rather than
> writing it by hand)."
Are they looking at the same source code we are? ;-)

Cheers,

Jelmer


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