Lie 1: Code Is More Important Than Data
“Everything is a data problem. including usability, maintenance, debug-ability, everything.” – Mike Acton (2014 - cppCon)
Truth: Your main responsibility is to transform data, not designing code, solve the data transformation xproblem and nothing else.
As a programmer,it is your main responsibility to transform data effectively and efficiently. This involves not only designing code, but also understanding the problem at hand and the context in which the data exists. Keep in mind that the purpose of all programs and their components is to transform data from one form to another, and that the code is simply a tool to achieve this goal.
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