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The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.

Edsger Dijkstra
Exploitation, Programmers, Activity
"The Humble Programmer". Edsger Dijkstra's ACM Turing Award lecture, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, No. 10, www.cs.utexas.edu. October 1972.
The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.