Publication dates

Code Complete Second Edition, by Steve McConnell, ch.2 p.6:

Brian Kernighan and P. J. Plauger named their programming-style book The Elements of Programming Style (1978) after the writing-style book The Elements of Style (Strunk and White 2000).

I knew Kernighan and Plauger were forward-thinking, but hadn’t realised they were 22 years ahead of their time!

(Oh, and for my own future reference: Creating a torn/ripped paper effect in GIMP.)