Data Structures Quotes

• The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures.

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  Fred Brooks

  Data   Battle   Weapons  

  "Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction". Book by Steve C. McConnell, 1993.

  5192

• Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

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  Eric S. Raymond

  Smart   Data   Simplicity  

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.37, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

  439

• 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

  Self   Data   Algorithms  

  4189

• 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.

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  Linus Torvalds

  Trust   Data   Differences  

  Message to Git mailing list, lwn.net. June 27, 2006.

  4528

• A data structure is just a stupid programming language.

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  Bill Gosper

  Stupid   Data   Language  

  5045

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

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  Linus Torvalds

  Data   Worry   Structure  

  Message to Git Mailing List, lwn.net. July 27, 2006.

  1582

• It's easy to make mistakes that only come out much later, after you've already implemented a lot of code. You'll realize Oh I should have used a different type of data structure. Start over from scratch.

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  Guido van Rossum

  Mistake   Should Have   Data  

  4981

• Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

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  Douglas Crockford

  Data   Crafts   Requirements  

  1499

• It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

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  Alan Perlis

  Trust   Data   Function  

  3082