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+++ title = "Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming" date = 2026-03-19T00:40:32-03:00 [extra] url = "https://www.cs.unc.edu/~stotts/COMP590-059-f24/robsrules.html" +++

I like the last one:

Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

or its alternative, as also mentioned there:

write stupid code that uses smart objects