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The data structures in C require thorough documentation to have any chance to keep your foots. And keeping the preprocessor wizards in check. But I agree that Linux authors have done a consistently good job.

In fact, a kernel is even easier to read than other programs whose authors worked as hard, because having no external libraries at all also helps.




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