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Re:The Elephant at WWDC by cratermoon on Sunday June 13, 2021 @11:15AM (#27493298)
> you don't need to see how your code fits into the whole.

GP said a whole, not the whole.

A subsystem, abstraction, or whatever, works as a whole, not as unconnected pieces, and the code needs to reflect the organization and concepts within itself as a meaningful whole.

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Re:The Elephant at WWDC by Dylan16807 on Sunday June 13, 2021 @11:48PM (#27499091)
> GP said a whole, not the whole.

That reinforces the idea that a programmer might be good at one kind but not another.

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