hacker.txt
file.
It was written by Furey of MERC Industries and is included here with his
permission. I've packaged it with Circle (very slightly changed in a couple
of places, such as specific filenames) because it offers good advice and
insight into the art and science of software engineering.
More information about CircleMUD, including up-to-date versions of this
documentation in ASCII and Postscript, can be found at the
CircleMUD Home Page or
FTP site.