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The Elements of Programming Style

Brian Kernighan, P. J. Plauger

Technology

An influential book presenting rules of good programming style through analysis of real (often flawed) code examples drawn from textbooks. Each example is critiqued and rewritten to illustrate principles of clarity, simplicity, and correctness. It is modeled on Strunk and White's The Elements of Style.

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  • “Kernighan and Plauger's The Elements of Programming Style was an important and rightly influential book.”

    From Pike's own essay 'Notes on Programming in C' (1989), where he uses the book as the starting point for his discussion of programming style and clarity.

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