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“you only got 80 words to write your routine, and so you do tend to use things like reusing instructions as data, using a piece of data for more than one thing. If you can manage to put this little subroutine there in memory, then its address can also be used as a data constant. This is what it took-it was origami and haiku and all that as a style of programming. And I spent several years doing that.”

Peter Seibel, Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming by Peter Seibel
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