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Perfection within the week (infosec.pub)
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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 100 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Only git wasn’t done in 10 days. It was very quickly able to track its own development, but it still took Linus half a year of thinking to be able to make git.

(No, sorry, I can’t find the interview that would validate that claim.)

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 32 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And it would still benefit for taking a week to formally define its interface before Linus started coding.

Also, basic is famous for being already fully specified and mostly stolen from other people's work.

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