The traditional KISS principle says that you are stupid if you can’t keep it simple. However, keeping it simple is actually very, very hard. But my lasting impression after reading a lot of code (linux kernel and otherwise) over the years is that there is no excuse for not keeping your code short. And usually, keeping it short is a very good first step towards keeping it simple. This presentation will give some simple tricks and pointers to keep your code short and I will also give some guidelines how to do design and implementation from a high-level point of view. These simple rules should make it easier for you to get your code accepted in open source projects such as the linux kernel.
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