Oddly enought, the "short read on writing literate Perl here", mentioned at the start of this thread, includes the following:

     "Rob Pike says: `Data dominates. If you've chosen the right
      data structures and organized things well, the algorithms
      will almost always be self-evident.  Data structures, not
      algorithms, are central to programming. (See Brooks p. 102.)'"

We all seem to be dipping our toes in the same stream :-)

p
update: That "toes in stream" was the best I could come up with at that moment.
shoulda/coulda been: "Which only goes to prove the point."