Re:Abstraction: Not what you think it is
by tome on Saturday April 02, 2022 @05:25PM
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> - Linus Torvalds
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> "Fold knowledge into data, so program logic can be stupid and robust."
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> - Eric S. Raymond
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> "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."
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> - Rob Pike
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> "Representation is the Essence of Programming"
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> - Fred Brooks
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> "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!
Ah, they're advocates for strongly-typed programming and they didn't even know it!