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"git actually has a simple design, with stable and reasonably well-documented data structures. In fact, I'm a huge proponent of designing your code around the d
by jackmaney 13y ago
"git actually has a simple design, with stable and reasonably well-documented data structures. In fact, I'm a huge proponent of designing your code around the data, rather than the other way around, and I think it's one of the reasons git has been fairly successful […] I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important."
--Linus Torvalds
(source: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/163185/torvalds-quote-about-good-programmer http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/163185/torval...)
- malingo 13y agoI'm getting off topic, but this quote brings to mind Dijkstra's remark that "our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed." Does anyone know whether this has indeed been shown to be true?
- hoka 13y agoAlong the same lines, a quote from 1975(!): "Fred Brooks, in Chapter 9 of The Mythical Man-Month, said this: Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious." http://www.dreamsongs.com/ObjectsHaveNotFailedNarr.html http://www.dreamsongs.com/ObjectsHaveNotFailedNarr.html