“Dijkstra probably hates me.”

—  Linus Torvalds

Comment in Linux kernel 1.1.42's kernel/sched.c file, 2006-08-28 http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v1.1/42/kernel/sched.c,
2000s, 2006

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