>
>  Even the simplest procedural logic is hard for
> humans to verify, but quite complex data structures are fairly easy to
> model and reason about. ...  Data is more tractable than program logic.
>

That's the beauty of Lisp/Scheme ... all the code is a data structure.

Seriously, did you check Bentley's "Programming Pearls" ? That's usually the
repository for (old) software aphorisms. (Many of his best ones from
Perlis.)

--
Bill
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