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> biggest control-freaks

"control-freak" not necessary. For any known sequence/set of feature requirements it is possible to choose an optimal abstraction.

It's also possible to order the requirements in such a way, that introduction of next requirement will entirely invalidate an abstraction, chosen for the previously introduced requirements.

Most of the humans have trouble recovering from such a case. Those who do succeed are called senior software engineers.



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