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Build the right software abstractions.
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software_abstractions.txt
"Pick the right ones, and programming will flow naturally from design;
modules will have small and simple interfaces; and new functionality will
more likely fit in without extensive reorganization.
Pick the wrong ones, and programming will be a series of nasty surprises:
interfaces will become baroque and clumsy as they are forced to accommodate
unanticipated interactions, and even the simplest of changes will be hard to make."
MIT Professor Daniel Jackson
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10928
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