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Rob Pike February 21, 1989 Introduction Kernighan and Plauger's The Elements of Programming Style was an important and rightly influential book. But sometimes I feel its concise rules were taken as a cookbook approach to good style instead of the succinct expression of a philosophy they were meant to be. If the book claims that variable names should be chosen meaningfully, doesn't it then follow

[mattn]

golangのMLになんでgoのコードは1文字変数名使うのってポストがあったけど、ちゃんと裏付けがあった。

[maisenakajima]

Notes on Programming in C

[yasuharu519]

Rob Pike

[peketamin]

"Don't laugh now, wait until you see it in real life."

[kasumani]

Notes on Programming in C Introduction       Kernighan and Plauger's The Elements of Programming Style was an important and rightly influential book.  But sometimes I feel its concise rules were taken as a cookbook approach to good style instead of the succinct expression of a philosophy they we