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		TimLeland 46 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989) Take a look at the page title. I guess he didn't follow his own rules for this 100-line HTML file <title> <h1>Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming</h1> </title>

zahlman 46 days ago [–]

The page was created by some CS professor at UNC, not by Pike.

Pike's rules are from 1989, which is before it was common to publish HTML.

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