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Re:Abstraction: Not what you think it is by tome on Saturday April 02, 2022 @05:25PM (#30891814)
> - Linus Torvalds > > "Fold knowledge into data, so program logic can be stupid and robust." > > - Eric S. Raymond > > "Data dominates. If you’ve chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming." > > - Rob Pike > > "Representation is the Essence of Programming" > > - Fred Brooks > > "One of the key attributes of a "Good" representation, is the ease in which it is transformed into other valid information the computer can process."

Ah, they're advocates for strongly-typed programming and they didn't even know it!

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