linus torvalds

data structure dictates code

• https://medium.com/webdevops/data-structures-548cbea9c520

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. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

good data structure

examples

• Eric Raymond’s “Rule of Representation” from 2003:
• Fold knowledge into data, so program logic can be stupid and robust.