···8485### ...Except They're Not
8687-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.
8889The `#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:
90
···8485### ...Except They're Not
8687+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.
8889The `#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:
90