Re: [Boston.pm] Put similarities in code and differences in data

As long as everyone else is being silly....

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print <<_DATA;
    put data in code
_DATA

-----or-----

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
sub put_code { eval $_[0]; }
while (my $in_data = <>) {
    put_code($in_data);
}


Tolkin, Steve wrote:
> I am looking for the "best" and/or original wording of this programming
> maxim: Put similarities in code and differences in data
>
> Google found this in a perl discussion
> "capture similarities in code, differences in data"
> http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.fun/month=20031001
> So I am posting to this list.
>
> Here is a hit on a similar quote "putting invariants in code and
> differences in data."
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.object/browse_thread/thread/1dc6f6dd
> db34dc18/cdfb5eae936861f2?lnk=st&q=%22differences+in+data%22+%22in+code%
> 22&rnum=3&hl=en#cdfb5eae936861f2
> This mentions Mellor is passing -- Is he the original person behind
> this?
>
> Hopefully helpfully yours,
> Steve
>   

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