[FRIAM] a little help from my friends

[Stephen Guerin]

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]



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On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 8:22 AM glen <gepropella at 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
>
>
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