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Ah yes, the old insight. Fred Brooks: "Show me your [code] and conceal your [data structures], and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your [data structures], and I won't usually need your [code]; it'll be obvious."



Yes, and here's one by Rob Pike, "Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self­evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming." --- https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/pikestyle.html

I think I found all these quotes on SQLite's website, https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html




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