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Re:“What if it changes?” by Dylan16807 on Monday May 23, 2022 @06:13AM (#31477112)
If you consider organization in general to be abstraction, then I think that might cause some overselling of abstraction and miscommunication with others.

Unless I'm the one using words weirdly here.

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Re:“What if it changes?” by pkolaczk on Monday May 23, 2022 @06:44AM (#31477341)
It is not just reordering the lines of code.

In order to organize code that way, you need to establish e.g. some data structures to represent input and output that are generic enough that they don't depend on the actual input/output formatting. There you have the abstraction.

The key thing is to be able to understand the processing code without the need to constantly think the data came from CSV delimited by semicolons. ;)

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