Program in Terms of the Problem Domain
Another specific method of dealing with complexity is to work at the highest possible level of abstraction. One way of working at a high level of abstraction is to work in terms of the programming problem rather than the computer-science solution.
Top-level code shouldn't be filled with details about files and stacks and queues and arrays and characters whose parents couldn't think of better names for them than i, j, and k. Top-level code should describe the problem that's being solved. It should be packed with descriptive class names and routine calls that indicate exactly what the program is doing, not cluttered with details about opening a file as "read only." Toplevel code shouldn't contain clumps of comments ...
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