Using good data structures is important

As opposed to the quality of the code that you initially use to process them.

Another thing bad programmers do is invent their own data structures all the time. Good programmers (like Tantek Çelic) even go so far to adopt the bad data sturctures of other people rather than invent their own. Then they optimize them. That's a kind of joke for those of you who don't get it.

These days, if you're writing web software that deals with people or events or things like that, you could do a lot worse than using some representation of the microformat for those things.

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