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Re:The Python Paradox Is Now the Scala Paradox (2009) by Roboprog on Saturday September 17, 2016 @03:06PM (#12521893)
Further aside: it's funny that in popular use, "abstract" means "unintelligible", but in math, it means "well defined shorthand", for the purposes of making bigger problems approachable, at all.
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Re:The Python Paradox Is Now the Scala Paradox (2009) by antod on Saturday September 17, 2016 @05:07PM (#12522452)
If you think abstract is bad - wait until you see what civil engineers think 'concrete' is!
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