Data exists for higher purposes. You can't say 4 6.9 0034 has much intrinsic meaning. In fact, modern approaches seek to encapsulate the data itself, and instea

Data exists for higher purposes. You can't say 4 6.9 0034 has much intrinsic meaning. In fact, modern approaches seek to encapsulate the data itself, and instead build abstractions to better model circumstances and behaviour, in effect hiding or masking data. The troubles begin when working directly in the data models, leading to coupling, dependencies, side-effects and narrow perspectives on how to accomplish better designs. In beginning it seems more powerful, until enough complexity creep attained to warrant headache examination.