captain abstraction

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captain abstraction - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Captain Abstraction
  
     The champion of the principles of abstraction and
     modularity, who protects unwary students on MIT's course
     6.001 from the nefarious designs of Sergeant Spaghetticode
     and his vile concrete programming practices.
  
     See also spaghetti code.
  
     (1994-11-22)