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		cratermoon on June 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Elephant at WWDC > you don't need to see how your code fits into the whole. GP said a whole, not the whole. A subsystem, abstraction, or whatever, works as a whole, not as unconnected pieces, and the code needs to reflect the organization and concepts within itself as a meaningful whole.

Dylan16807 on June 14, 2021 [–]

> GP said a whole, not the whole.

That reinforces the idea that a programmer might be good at one kind but not another.

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