{"id":241,"date":"2015-06-15T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/?p=241"},"modified":"2015-06-15T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T22:10:08","slug":"representation-is-the-essence-of-computer-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2015\/06\/15\/representation-is-the-essence-of-computer-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Representation is the essence of computer programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlite.org\/appfileformat.html\">SQLite As An Application File Format<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A clear, concise, and easy to understand file format is a crucial part of any application design. Fred Brooks, in his all-time best-selling computer science text, <em>The Mythical Man-Month<\/em> says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Representation is the essence of computer programming.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won&#8217;t usually need your flowcharts; they&#8217;ll be obvious.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rob Pike, in his <em>Rules of Programming<\/em> expresses the same idea this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Data dominates. If you&#8217;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.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Linus Torvalds used different words to say much the same thing on the Git mailing list on 2006-06-27:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SQLite As An Application File Format A clear, concise, and easy to understand file format is a crucial part of any application design. Fred Brooks, in his all-time best-selling computer science text, The Mythical Man-Month says: Representation is the essence of computer programming. &#8230; Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}