At 07:22 PM 09/07/2000, Paul Dorfman wrote: >"Kerrison, James" <James.Kerrison@FMR.COM> wrote, in part: > >>I think it was Paul Dorfman who said in a posting recently that a >program >>should process data, not contain it. Think about it! > >Foster, > >I did write it, indeed. However, I also indicated the source of the idea >which I simply paraphrased. Ian Whitlock has been preaching it long enough >for any thoughtful programmer to digest, and even dedicated a classical >tutorial "Code or Data?" to the subject at SUGI 24 in Miami Beach.

PMFJI, but this was a very trippy paper - not at all what I had expected (as was another by Ron Fehd at this year's SUGI in Indianapolis).

His actual presentation centered around an example where, using my own phrase, he's damn near got "the program in the data".

I had never considered such a paradigm before.

Definitely worth checking out either on-line, or get the CD-ROM.

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