···84848585### ...Except They're Not
86868787-Earlier I said imports are like copy and paste. That's not *exactly* true. To see why, it's intructive to take a trip down the memory lane to the `#include` directive in C.
8787+Earlier I said imports are like copy and paste. That's not *exactly* true. To see why, it's instructive to take a trip down the memory lane to the `#include` directive in C.
88888989The `#include` directive, which predates the JavaScript `import` by about 40 years, behaved [quite literally like copy and paste](https://stackoverflow.com/a/5735389/458193)! For example, here's a C program:
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