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Some remarks on John K. Ousterhout's Philosophy of Software Design

Looking into John K. Ousterhout’s A Philosophy of Software Design (2nd Ed.), I have so far found a mixture of valuable wisdom and what I consider to be perplexing misprisions. In this post I’m going to focus, in a nitpicky fashion, on two such misprisions, not to lay the author low with superficial gotchas but to mark and reflect on points of fundamenta…