“Christ, people. Learn C, instead of just stringing random characters together until it compiles”

— Linus Torvalds

with warnings <br class="br"> Torvalds, Linus, 2015-09-03, <nowiki>Linus Torvalds on the LKM mailing list</nowiki>, 2015-09-30 https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/3/428, <br class="br">2010s, 2015

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