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Comment by another_twist

5 days ago

Good programmers worry about the algorithms. Great ones worry about the data structures and the relationships between them. If memory serves, it was Kernighan.

"Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships." - Linus Torvalds

"Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious." - Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month

And two threads with some further discussion I found while looking for these quotes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10293795