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		andai on July 21, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Wrong Abstraction (2016) I looked up the full text of the book, but couldn't figure out what tables mean in this context.

wazoox on July 21, 2018 | [–]

The quote comes usually with "data" instead of "tables" and "algorithms" instead of "flowcharts".

abdulhaq on July 21, 2018 | | [–]

Row/column data such as you would find on mainframe accounting software

im3w1l on July 21, 2018 | | [–]

I would assume database tables

opless on July 21, 2018 | [–]

I'm guessing s/tables/data/g

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