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From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!news2
Subject: Re: The Obfuscated Ada Contest (was Re: An admittedly biased ...)
Date: 23 Oct 92 17:57:53 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <legf91INN3oa@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> (raw)

In article <1992Oct22.080735.19815@intrepid.com> gary@intrepid.com (Gary Funck)
 writes:
>   something to talk about.  My point here is: if some degree of
>   abstraction is good, a very high degree of abstraction is not
>   always better.

Yes, and also there is a quote from Butler Lampson "Abstraction is no excuse
for not getting it right".

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1992-11-07 19:11 The Obfuscated Ada Contest (was Re: An admittedly biased ...) John Goodsen
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1992-10-25 12:25 Daniel Wengelin
1992-10-24 18:33 Alex Blakemore
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