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		moogly 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989) The D stands for "dependency", the R stands for "regret" and I'm not sure what the Y stands for yet.

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zer00eyz 4 days ago [–]

Yelling... it stands for yelling...

Mostly at the massive switch statements and 1000 line's of flow control logic that end up embedded someplace where they really dont belong in the worst cases.

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