That line is by Alan Perlis [1]. It's great, but not relevant to the question above, which is: all other things being equal, what's the best way to do functiona

That line is by Alan Perlis [1]. It's great, but not relevant to the question above, which is: all other things being equal, what's the best way to do functional decomposition? If you're moving between 1 and 10 data structures, then "all other things" are so far from being equal as to make for a completely different matter. [1] http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html