From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200008011627.MAA23591@cse.psu.edu> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Installing the updates From: "rob pike" Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 12:27:04 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: f0a9c02e-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 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