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		tptacek on Nov 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989) Systems programming is edge case handling.

ikari_pl on Nov 2, 2023 [–]

And that's exactly why it should be expressive, self explanatory, and come at a low cognitive cost.

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