Quote #8
Rob Pike says: `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.
(See Brooks p. 102.)'
Rob Pike says: `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.
(See Brooks p. 102.)'
Related:
- Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs -- Niklaus Wirth
- Knuth: /knooth/ [Donald E. Knuth's "The Art of Computer
Programming"] n.
Mythically, the reference that answers all questions about data structures or algorithms.... - Knuth /ka-nooth'/ n.
[Donald E. Knuth's "The Art of
Computer Programming"] Mythically, the reference that answers all
questions about data structures or algorithms.
A safe answer when you do not know: "I think you can find that in Knuth.... - upload /uhp'lohd/ v.
1. [techspeak] To transfer
programs or data over a digital communications link from a smaller
or peripheral `client' system to a larger or central `host'
one.
A transfer in the other direction is, of course, called a download (but see the note about ground-to-space comm under that entry).... - upload: /uhp'lohd/ v. 1. [techspeak] To transfer programs or
data over a digital communications link from a smaller or
peripheral `client' system to a larger or central `host'
one.
A transfer in the other direction is, of course, called a {download} (but see the note about ground-to-space comm under that entry).... - Call things by their right names... Glass of brandy and water!
That is the current but not the appropriate name... - What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for
something to occur to you.
-- Robert Frost [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.... - While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
-- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven" [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.... - An apprentice carpenter may want only a hammer and saw,
but a master craftsman employs many precision tools.
Computer programming likewise requires sophisticated tools to cope with the complexity of real applications, and only practice with these tools will build skill in their use....
