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“In the development of our understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from a recognition of similarities between certain objects, situations, or processes in the real world, and the decision to concentrate on these similarities, and to ignore for the time being the differences.”
A foundational text advocating disciplined program design, setting out principles of structured programming, data structuring, and hierarchical program organisation to improve software reliability.