I'm not sure that code is ephemeral. It seems to congeal into a thixatropic mass. But it's clear that data itself - that mutable-state heterogeneous-structured

I'm not sure that code is ephemeral. It seems to congeal into a thixatropic mass. But it's clear that data itself - that mutable-state heterogeneous-structured blob - has deep value, and handling that data appropriately is very important. This isn't treated adequately in the zeitgeist.