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The key to successful human produced software is using abstraction to control the complexity of each task in hand. I.e. in each task, being able to use objects without considering in detail how they interact. The objects are abstractions of lower level code or data, which are in turn abstractions of still lower levels. Thus a programmer may use a file while knowing nothing about how to program the disk drive on which it is stored. Indeed the program can continue to work even if the file is moved to another disk drive, even if it is of a different type, even a type which had not been designed when the program was written.
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Langdon, W.B. (1998). Conclusions. In: Genetic Programming and Data Structures. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5731-9_9
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