Simon Willison’s Weblog

26th April 2010

Good design in computer programming consists of inventing abstractions that don’t leak. Good programming consists of implementing those abstractions in such a way that they don’t leak.

— Mike Taylor

Posted 26th April 2010 at 5:42 pm

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This is a quotation collected by Simon Willison, posted on 26th April 2010.

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