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Implicit vs. Explicit

One common piece of programming advice out you'll get is to prefer for things to be "explicit" rather than "implicit". There are a lot of meanings to this saying, and I don't think it's usually described in much detail, so I'll give you an example:

Most programming languages have functions. In our program, we could call functions themselves "implicit". The explicit version of this (especially in object-oriented languages) might be the "command" pattern....

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