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• The Ninth Commandment for C programmers: Thy external identifiers shall be unique in the first six characte
  hough this harsh discipline be irksome and the years of its necessity stretch before thee seemingly without end, lest thou tear thy hair out and go mad on that fateful day when thou desirest to make thy program run on an old system....
• The Commandments of the EE: 5: Take care that thou useth the proper method when thou takest the measures of high-voltage circuits too
  hat thou dost not incinerate both thee and thy test meter, for verily, though thou has no company property number and can be easily surveyed, the test meter has one and, as a consequence, bringeth much woe unto a purchasing agent....
• The Tenth Commandment for C programmers: Thou shalt foreswea
  enounce, and abjure the vile heresy which claimeth that All the world's a VAX, and have no commerce with the benighted heathens who cling to this barbarous belief, that the days of thy program may be long even though the days of thy current machine be short....
• The Sixth Commandment for C programmers: If a function be advertised to return an error code in the event of difficultie
  hou shalt check for that code, yea, even though the checks triple the size of thy code and produce aches in thy typing fingers, for if thou thinkest it cannot happen to me, the gods shall surely punish thee for thy arrogance....
• What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage Whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none?
  First came the seen, then thus the palpable Elysium, though it were in the halls of Hell, What thou lovest well is thy true heritage....
• The Fourth Commandment for C programmers: If thy header files fail to declare them thyself the return types of thy library functio
  hou shalt declare them thyself with the most meticulous care, lest grievous harm befall thy program....
• The Eighth Commandment for C programmers: Thou shalt make thy program's purpose and structure clear to thy fellow man by using the One True Brace Style
  even if thou likest it not, for thy creativity is better used in solving problems than in creating beautiful new impediments to understanding....
• Oh ye who go about saying unto each other: "Hello sailo
  Dost thou know the magnitude of thy sin before the gods?...
• The Seventh Commandment for C programmers: Thou shalt study thy libraries and strive not to re-invent them without cause, that thy code may be short and readable and thy days pleasant and productive.
  -- Harry Spence...