Modelling the World

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The goal of modelling is to produce something substantially simpler than the world. This is achieved not through endlessly inventing new types and relationships -- in fact, it's just the opposite. It's by eliminating entities and restricting types that we get a model that's simpler than the world and thus useful.

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java, software-design, api-design
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Source code in this card is licensed under the MIT License.
Posted by Lexy to makandra dev (2009-08-11 20:13)