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Coding guidelines: finding the art in the science

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What separates good code from great code?

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 12
            December 2011
            121 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/2043174
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