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From: "rob pike" <rob@pla...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Installing the updates
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 12:27:04 -0400

> 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