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Hmm, I read it at least partly as a riff on the idea of composition: the day is won by designing components with desirable properties out of lesser components w
by gsg 14y ago
Hmm, I read it at least partly as a riff on the idea of composition: the day is won by designing components with desirable properties out of lesser components which lack them. The parallel to programming seems obvious.
Your reading works too.
- andmarios 14y agoGiven that the article was written by Dijkstra, your interpretation is probably closer to the truth than mine. I wonder though if this lesson has the same value nowadays as it had on its day. Maybe it is because of such lessons that this design procedure is common today.