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Comment author: jimrandomh 16 April 2012 12:29:58AM 5 points [-]

From my own experience as a programmer, I think this is idealized to the point of being false. Finding a few distantly-separated, interacting regions of code which don't respect a clean abstraction is pretty common, especially when debugging (in which case there is an abstraction but it doesn't work).