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Thoughts on Abstractions: Part 1 – Abstractions Everywhere

Published by Phillip Calçado August 17th, 2010 in abstractions, books, c#, components, domain driven design, domain specific languages, java, language adaptation, language oriented programming, layers, object orientation, ruby, software architecture and software design. 6 Comments

Update: Part II is here.
Most complex tasks are solved using abstractions. To create an abstraction one groups lower-level concepts, what I will call primitives in this text, and make them interact in a pre-defined way.

Abstractions are present at all levels in a system. Computers work based on electric signals. To reduce the Essential Complexity we […]

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