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"It is better to have 100 functions that operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions that operate on 10 data structures" - SICP <3
by textread 4y ago
"It is better to have 100 functions that operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions that operate on 10 data structures" - SICP <3
- xyzwave 4y agoI’m guessing SICP took that from Alan J. Perlis, considering he wrote the foreword. http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
- czx4f4bd 4y agoIt's from the forward. Page xvii in this copy: https://web.mit.edu/6.001/6.037/sicp.pdf https://web.mit.edu/6.001/6.037/sicp.pdf
- czx4f4bd 4y agoI would posit that this is also why spreadsheets and shell scripts remain so widely used.