Pike himself says "there's a 6th rule": https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/9986... | Hacker News

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		svec on Aug 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989) Pike himself says "there's a 6th rule": https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/998681790037442561?lang=... (6. There is no Rule 6.) And points to the best source he finds for it on the web: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/pikestyle

tinco on Aug 12, 2020 [–]

dang if this sticks to the frontpage, can you change the title to "Rob Pike's 5 rules of programming in C"? As the title is now it misrepresents Rob Pikes words.

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