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Software development topics I've changed my mind on

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873 points belter | 1 comments | 05 Feb 25 09:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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jagraff ◴[05 Feb 25 14:39 UTC] No.42949051[source]▶
> Contrarily, library development is about abstractions. Spend time hunting for an algebra

This line piqued my interest - what does an algebra mean in this context? Does anyone know of any good resources for further exploration?

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1. wink ◴[05 Feb 25 15:30 UTC] No.42949876[source]▶
Only guessing but my first thought was about how you have addition and multiplication and they both work for different types of numbers. But not in the generics/C++ template sense, more like working on Sets and Rings and other algebraic structures in the mathematical sense.