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From: Steve Simon <steve@sav...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Installing the updates
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 22:49:05 +0100

rob pike wrote:
> 
> > It would be nice if Pike could present a compelling argument.  His web
> > page states only:
> 
> [The `web page' is just a very old class handout that propagated
> far beyond its intended audience.]
> 
[snip]

Hi,

Please don't belittle your handout.

I found it a revelation, I honestly think it is the best document
on programming in C I have ever seen - the Principals of Programming
Practice says other things and explains in more depth but your handout
is
still the "essence".

-Steve