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From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Installing the updates
Date: Tue,  1 Aug 2000 12:27:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200008011627.MAA23591@cse.psu.edu> (raw)

> I think he's heard the argument but doesn't agree.
> 
>     "Simple rule: include files should never include include files."
>         -- http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/pikestyle.html
> 

Yup.  That little note, written for a CS class in 1987, has been
expanded into a book, published last year, called The Practice
of Programming.

-rob



             reply	other threads:[~2000-08-01 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-08-01 16:27 rob pike [this message]
2000-08-02 10:53 ` Ralph Corderoy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-08-02  9:47 forsyth
2000-08-02  9:52 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-08-01 17:06 Russ Cox
2000-08-02  8:32 ` Bruce G. Stewart
2000-08-01 16:26 rob pike
2000-08-02 21:49 ` Steve Simon
2000-08-01 13:35 rob pike
2000-08-01 18:34 ` Greg Hudson
2000-08-02  9:53 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-01 13:06 rob pike
2000-08-01 13:10 ` Lucio De Re
2000-08-01 12:55 rob pike
2000-08-02  9:39 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-01  6:04 Russ Cox
2000-08-01  5:42 Russ Cox
2000-07-31 17:09 Russ Cox
2000-07-31 15:57 jmk
2000-07-31 15:15 rob pike
2000-08-01  8:53 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-01 12:12   ` Howard Trickey
2000-08-02  9:11     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-01 14:31   ` Ralph Corderoy
2000-08-01 16:03     ` Greg Hudson
2000-08-01 16:32       ` James A. Robinson
2000-08-01 17:05         ` James A. Robinson
2000-08-02  9:39       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-02  9:11     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-03 14:51     ` ozan s. yigit
     [not found] <djhender@telusplanet.net>
2000-07-31 14:53 ` Doug Henderson
2000-07-31 17:38   ` Scott Schwartz
2000-07-31 20:10     ` Steve Simon

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