Notes on Programming in C - bell labs - pikestyle | /sys/doc/ Documentation archiveRob 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
