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Re:Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming by johnmaguire on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @09:11AM (#47425381)
Hm, not sure. Data on its own (say, a string of numbers) might be meaningless - but structured data? Sure, there may be ambiguity but well-structured data generally ought to have a clear/obvious interpretation. This is the whole idea of nailing your data structures.
Re:Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming by 0xpgm on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @09:24AM (#47425517)
Yeah, structured data implies some processing on raw data to improve its meaning. Alan Kay seems to want to push this idea to encapsulate data with rich behaviour.