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P. J. Plauger

[b. 1944] author, entrepreneur and computer programmer

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Make your programs read from top to bottom.

P. J. Plauger

Kernighan and Plauger

The Elements of Programming Style by Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger

ISBN: 0070342075 This book is available from Amazon

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Where there are two bugs, there is likely to be a third.

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Kernighan and Plauger - Chapter 6

The Elements of Programming Style by Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger

ISBN: 0070342075 This book is available from Amazon

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Take care to branch the right way on equality.

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Kernighan and Plauger - Chapter 6

The Elements of Programming Style by Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger

ISBN: 0070342075 This book is available from Amazon

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Test input for validity and plausibility.

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Kernighan and Plauger - Chapter 5

The Elements of Programming Style by Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger

ISBN: 0070342075 This book is available from Amazon

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Don't patch bad code - rewrite it.

P. J. Plauger

Kernighan and Plauger

The Elements of Programming Style by Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger

ISBN: 0070342075 This book is available from Amazon

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Don't stop with your first draft.

P. J. Plauger

Kernighan and Plauger

The Elements of Programming Style by Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger

ISBN: 0070342075 This book is available from Amazon

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Make it right before you make it fast. Make it clear before you make it faster. Keep it right when you make it faster.

P. J. Plauger

Kernighan and Plauger

The Elements of Programming Style by Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger

ISBN: 0070342075 This book is available from Amazon

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Let the machine do the dirty work.

P. J. Plauger

Kernighan and Plauger - Chapter 2

The Elements of Programming Style by Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger

ISBN: 0070342075 This book is available from Amazon

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Choose a data representation that makes the program simple.

P. J. Plauger

Kernighan and Plauger - Chapter 3

The Elements of Programming Style by Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger

ISBN: 0070342075 This book is available from Amazon

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Let the data structure the program.

P. J. Plauger

Kernighan and Plauger - Chapter 4

The Elements of Programming Style by Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger

ISBN: 0070342075 This book is available from Amazon

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Make sure your code 'does nothing' gracefully.

P. J. Plauger

Kernighan and Plauger - chapter 6. An obvious example of doing nothing gracefully is a sort routine called with a list of one element. The sorter should correctly do nothing.

The Elements of Programming Style by Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger

ISBN: 0070342075 This book is available from Amazon

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[His major concern is] "The principle of One Right Place - there should be One Right Place to look for any nontrivial piece of code, and One Right Place to make a likely maintenance change.

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From the book: Code Complete 2.

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The more dogmatic you are about applying a design method, the fever real-life problems you are going to solve.

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People who preach software design as a disciplined activity spend considerable energy making us all feel guilty. We can never be structured enough or object-oriented enough to achieve nirvana in this lifetime. We all truck around a kind of original sin from having learned Basic at an impressionable age. But my bet is that most of us are better designers than the purists will ever acknowledge.

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