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Ah yes, the old insight. Fred Brooks: "Show me your [code] and conceal your [data structures], and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your [data structur
by dTal 7y ago
Ah yes, the old insight. Fred Brooks: "Show me your [code] and conceal your [data structures], and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your [data structures], and I won't usually need your [code]; it'll be obvious."
- combatentropy 7y agoYes, and here's one by Rob Pike, "Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be selfevident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming." --- https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/pikestyle.html https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/pikestyle.html I think I found all these quotes on SQLite's website, https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html