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One of the best programming quotes EVER

May 28, 2010 by Terry Poulin

“If the data structure can’t be explained on a beer coaster, it’s too complex.” — Felix von Leitner, Code Blau GmbH, in a paper on Source Code Optimization.

I knew there was a reason I liked algorithms and data structures that can be explained, in screen space, roughly the size of a beer coaster lol.

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