Lots of good advice from a long-time programmer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike). I have bookmarked these notes b

Lots of good advice from a long-time programmer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike). I have bookmarked these notes before, because his simple but effective tips resonate with me. From the article: > Algorithms, or details of algorithms, can often be encoded compactly, efficiently and expressively as data rather than, say, as lots of if statements. I have read elsewhere about moving your code complexity to your data. But I can't find that other article. It's hard to find mention at all of this strategy. But I have found it to be true. Moving details from PHP into the database results in shorter code overall. The first example that comes to mind is replacing a bunch of if-statements with one or more columns in the database, like for some kind of categorization.