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Line 6: The book pays explicit homage, in title and tone, to ''[[The Elements of Style]]'', by [[William Strunk Jr.\|Strunk]] & [[E. B. White\|White]]. The book is built on short examples from actual, published programs in programming textbooks. Its advice is therefore delivered not in an academic or pedagogical vacuum, but rather in the context of examples which are believable and realistic, sometimes uncomfortably so. The style is diplomatic and generally sympathetic in its criticism, and unabashedly honest as well— some of the examples with which it finds fault are from the authors' own work ( one example in the second edition is from the first edition). Its lessons are summarized at the end of each section in pithy maxims, such as "Let the machine do the dirty work."

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