Code vs. data… there are many ways to go into this oh so important dichotomy.
Here is a famous quote from a famous book, now over four decades old (as you can tell from its somewhat different terminology, i.e. flowcharts <=> code, tables <=> data):
Show me your flowcharts, and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified; show me your tables and I won’t usually need your flowcharts: they’ll be obvious.
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