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Interfaces and Hiding the Pea

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Daniel Beach
Sep 25, 2023
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Recently the indelible Mathews Powers made a comment, on my comment, that got me thinking.

I am thinking about interfaces, complexity, and the idea of hiding the pea 🫛 under some rug. The age-old complexity problem. Can complexity be done away with, or just hidden, or a little bit of both?

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