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From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney)
Subject: Re: Please Help.
Date: 1997/09/13
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 <5v2qk5$cpu$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <dewar.873989183@merv>
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Date: 1997-09-13T00:00:00+00:00
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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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