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while (foo == bar)
 
== Comments ==
Based on the standard, all comments should be in [[English_language]]. Each comment should have basic punctuation, but if a lower case identifier comes in the start of a sentence , you are not meant to capatilise it.
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The standard asks that when a programmer enters a comment, the standard asks that two spaces are put on the end of the sentence so that the Emacs sentence commands work.
 
== Files (Temporary, Configuration and/or Backups) ==
 
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To this rule, there are two exceptions, one is that /etc is a place to hold system configuration information, the other is that if a user explicitly asks to store files in a directory, it is reasonable of the program to store the rest of the files in the same directory.
 
 
== Portability ==