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In many areas of computing, theory and practice were able to sediment a number of basic abstractions that are now taught to students and provided to programmers, in the forms of libraries or programming-language constructs.

The world must be coming to an end. Children no longer obey their parents and every man wants to write a book.

(Writing on a tablet, unearthed not far from Babylon and dated back to 2800 B.C.)

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Cachin, C., Guerraoui, R., Rodrigues, L. (2011). Concluding Remarks. In: Introduction to Reliable and Secure Distributed Programming. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15260-3_7

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