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One interpretation: I think there's a dictum (due to Dijkstra, maybe?) that says something like programming = data structures + algorithms. If you remove the
by JadeNB 8y ago
One interpretation: I think there's a dictum (due to Dijkstra, maybe?) that says something like programming = data structures + algorithms. If you remove the 'algorithms' part, then you're left with data structures on the right, and, presumably, an impoverished programming language on the left.
- samatman 8y agoAlgorithms + Data Structures = Programs is a book by Niklaus Wirth.
- JadeNB 8y agoThanks! Wirth was going to be my second guess. For some reason, possibly because I had the order switched (or because the '+' itself, rather than just the words, is key to the phrase), I couldn't find the phrase by Googling.