What a marvelous quote this is...
In this connection it might be worthwhile to point out that the
purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new
semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
[Dijkstra1972] Edsger W Dijkstra, "The Humble Programmer", Communications
of the ACM 15(10), October 1972.
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