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A comment on Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming.

Re:Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming by TimLeland on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @10:52AM (#47426539)
Take a look at the page title. I guess he didn't follow his own rules for this 100-line HTML file

<title> <h1>Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming</h1> </title>

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Re:Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming by zahlman on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @07:44PM (#47432810)
The page was created by some CS professor at UNC, not by Pike.

Pike's rules are from 1989, which is before it was common to publish HTML.

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