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-====== Abstraction ======
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+ ====== Abstraction ======
 //A mental model of data processing and analysis//
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+the only mental tool by means of which a very finite piece of reasoning can cover a myriad of cases is called "abstraction"
+...the purpose of abstracting is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
+<cite>Edsger W. Dijkstra((The humble programmer. //Communications of the ACM// **15** (1972), 859--865.))</cite>
+</blockquote>
   * Application of the domain-driven design strategy.
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   * A model will always develop over time, together with the understanding of the underlying problem.
-Quote from Dijkstra‘s Turing Award lecture
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