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Moore law for abstractions?

From A Talk With Charles Simonyi (The WYSIWYG) on Intentional Programming:

(...)So an abstraction may be looked at from one side as a compression of many instances into one generality or from the other side as a special purpose power tool that yields the solution for many problems. If one could attach a dollar sign to this power, the economies would be amazing: rivaling that of chips or application software itself.(...)

created sat feb 1 2003 11:59am est [2003/2/1 11:59 EST] permalink

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