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		InclinedPlane on Sept 23, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Torvalds' quote about good programmers To paraphrase, if I may, a novice imagines that the goal of programming is to create code which solves a problem. This is true, but limited. The real goal is to create an abstract model which can be used to solve a problem and then to implement that model in code.

slurgfest on Sept 24, 2012 [–]

I really hope that people reading this know to apply Ockham's Razor to their abstract models (lest they write a lot of AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBeans).

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