This is a professional book about writing software by Joel Spolsky, he of the “Joel on Software” fame. It’s a compilation of articles and blog posts about writing software and contains some good advice. Arguing about style is so pointless, the entire problem can be circumvented by simply making the style part of the language. [...]
The Inferno
It is a fallacy to state that something exists just because it can't be proven that it doesn't
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