The Joys Of Data-Driven Programming

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 4:47:28 PM UTC+12, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> ... as a rule, I dislike rules. Rule languages tend to
> grow out of all bounds, always remain deficient and have impenetrable,
> ad-hoc semantics.

That’s a very peculiar thing to say, considering that data-driven programming is a well-known technique for writing compact code.

Less code, and in particular, less repetitive code => fewer bugs.