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Re:Education of a Programmer by Berobero on Monday April 03, 2017 @11:37AM (#14023577)
Is it truly possible to have a solid understanding of the interface and its use, though, without having a reasonable insight into, at least, the likely implementation of something?
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Re:Education of a Programmer by aynsof on Monday April 03, 2017 @05:20PM (#14027252)
I'm sure this isn't what you meant, but how about something like movement? I've met doctors who know anatomy like the (ahem) back of their hand, but they couldn't perform coordinated physical tasks to save their life.
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Re:Education of a Programmer by sullyj3 on Monday April 03, 2017 @09:15PM (#14028754)
Yes, that's the whole point of abstraction, to reduce cognitive load by ignoring irrelevant implementation details.
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