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From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney)
Subject: Re: Please Help.
Date: 1997/09/13
Date: 1997-09-13T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mheaney-ya023680001309970047210001@news.ni.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.874117393@merv


In article <dewar.874117393@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:

>You can
>turn this around by the way, it is easy to learn technical gizmos, it is
>MUCH harder to learn what abstraction is about.

Well stated.  The sad fact is that many, many working programmers never
really catch on to what abstraction is all about.

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  reply	other threads:[~1997-09-13  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-09-09  0:00 Please Help Ken
1997-09-09  0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-09-11  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-12  0:00     ` Tristan Ludowyk
1997-09-12  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-13  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
1997-09-13  0:00           ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-09-12  0:00       ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-09-12  0:00         ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-13  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-15  0:00             ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-15  0:00               ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-09-16  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-17  0:00                 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-18  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-19  0:00                     ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-19  0:00                       ` Robert S. White
1997-09-20  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-15  0:00     ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-16  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-09  0:00 ` Stephen Leake
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-25  6:55 please help Phosphorus
2001-10-25  8:22 ` Preben Randhol
2001-10-25 12:35 ` Marc A. Criley
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