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Programming is more than datastructures and algorithms.

Posted Aug 7, 2006 12:33 UTC (Mon) by bjornen (guest, #38874)
Parent article: Quote of the week

The last ten years (or so) of programming has shown "Algorithms + Data
Structures = Programs" to be *false*.

Code-modules and classes should represent ideas and concepts. Wrapping
ever so carefully thoughout datastructures with Get()ers and Set()ers is
not good programming.

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Posted Aug 7, 2006 12:47 UTC (Mon) by bjornen (guest, #38874) [Link]

s/thoughout/thought out/

Programming is more than datastructures and algorithms.

Posted Aug 7, 2006 13:09 UTC (Mon) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link]

I think they mean high-level data structure, not low level details such as "this hash's buckets are implemented with linked lists."