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    Programming and Abstraction

    I want to share a few good articles I read in the last week on programming. The first two use Elixir and Erlang for their examples, but the concepts apply to programming in any language. In Don’t Repeat Your Domain Knowledge, Yiming’s main point is that the well known DRY (“Don’t Repeat Yourself”) principle applies most importantly to domain knowledge. More and more the community seems to recognize that taking DRY too far can be quite harmful.

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