Glen Josh and I talk the same way internally as we're architecting: the duality of code and data as we continually try to simplify down to the core.
Some related links: - https://theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com/2020/08/duality.html - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_as_data - https://introtcs.org/public/lec_04_code_and_data.html [image: image.png] _______________________________________________________________________ stephen.gue...@simtable.com <stephen.gue...@simtable.com> CEO, https://www.simtable.com <http://www.simtable.com/> 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 8:22 AM glen <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > One of the issues I'm struggling with at the moment is workflow > [in]formality as related to data provenance. Analogous to "no free lunch", > I claim there's no such thing as raw data. From this perspective "code" is > nothing but a (set of) transformations of data (perhaps including other > code, or itself - taking oneself as data for oneself leads to > transformation ordering, which might imply another claim: there's no such > thing as 1st order transforms - it's transforms all the way down). > > High quality code is dual to its data. Any code from which you can't infer > "fit to purpose" data is bad code. Vice versa, any data from which you > can't infer "fit to purpose" code, is bad data. > > YMMV, of course. > > On 3/30/23 07:10, Prof David West wrote: > > I am keynoting the International Conference on Code Quality on April 22. > It will be speculative and philosophical, but I would like to know "code > quality" might mean, is taken for granted to mean, to professional coders. > I know what it means for this conference, but would like a broader base > from which to launch my flights of fancy. > > > > davew > > > -- > ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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