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Re:Restructuring a giant, ancient codebase to make LibreOffi... by sbov on Thursday January 18, 2018 @05:42PM (#16182312)
We tend to speak of abstractions in only positive terms. Some negative ones could include opaque, obtuse, disjointed, etc.
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Re:Restructuring a giant, ancient codebase to make LibreOffi... by Gibbon1 on Thursday January 18, 2018 @06:52PM (#16182777)
When I think of abstractions I think abstraction == API and good API design is very hard.
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