Rule 5 (data dominates) is exactly the same as lie 3 (code is more important than data) of Mike Acton's Three Big Lies (https://cellperformance.beyond3d.com/art

Rule 5 (data dominates) is exactly the same as lie 3 (code is more important than data) of Mike Acton's Three Big Lies (https://cellperformance.beyond3d.com/articles/2008/03/three-big-lies.html https://cellperformance.beyond3d.com/articles/2008/03/three-...). Rob Pike's rule 3 (don't use fancy algorithms) is closely related to Mike Acton's lie 1 (software is a platform) as well. A part of me wonders if Mike was influenced by Rob Pike's rules directly or indirectly. It's also something that an experienced programmer can discover independently easily enough. Mike Acton was clearly heavily influenced by some of the failures of classic OOP design (lie 2 of Three Big lies).