Abstraction in Programming

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A few months ago I was going through some code with a couple of colleagues. I was handing over components to some junior co-workers, and we were discussing the code and the functionality. The code itself was in pretty bad shape. It had been handed from developer to developer without really giving anyone the time to fix it properly, and thus had grown organically — patch by patch — to a huge mess. You know the type, long functions with lots…