Table of Contents

• 1. Style.
• 2. Algorithms and Data Structures.
• 3. Design and Implementation.
• 4. Interfaces.
• 5. Debugging.
• 6. Testing.
• 7. Performance.
• 8. Portability.
• 9. Notation.
• Epilogue.
• Appendix: Collected Rules.

About the Author

Brian W. Kernighan works in the Computing Science Research Center at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. He is Consulting Editor for Addison-Wesley's Professional Computing Series and the author, with Dennis Ritchie, of The C Programming Language. Rob Pike works in the Computing Science Research Center at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. He was a lead architect and implementer of the Plan 9 and Inferno operating systems. His research focuses on software that makes it easier for people to write software.

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