Interesting, I hadn't heard this before! My immediate reaction is that yes, I agree with principle as he states it exactly, but that's because anything with two

Interesting, I hadn't heard this before! My immediate reaction is that yes, I agree with principle as he states it exactly, but that's because anything with two dimensions where one of them is "1" is always going to be simpler because it's effectively one-dimensional. I don't think the comparison is fair because of that; I'd rather 100 functions and one data structure than 10 of each, but I'd prefer 100 data structures and a single function compared to that.