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  • Generality is always achieved by making the design more complex.

    Blogging from ICSE – Friday | Serendipity 2009

  • Generality is always achieved by making the design more complex.

    2009 May 24 | Serendipity 2009

  • Generality is always achieved by making the design more complex.

    2009 May | Serendipity 2009

  • But that Plenty should augment Covetousness, is a Perversion of Providence; and yet the Generality are the worse for their Riches.

    Part II. Of an Immediate Pursuit of the World 1909

  • Brabant, Limburg and Flanders, the so-called Generality lands; also their conquests in Brazil and the East Indies made at the expense of

    History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

  • But that Plenty should augment Covetousness, is a Perversion of Providence; and yet the Generality are the worse for their Riches.

    Some Fruits of Solitude 1693

  • They exercised a strong supervision of finance, and sovereign authority over the entire administration of the "Generality" lands.

    History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

  • A letter to the South Carolina Gazette complained that “many of the Female Slaves are by far more elegantly dressed, than the Generality of White Women below Affluence.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Generality thus suggests that, given a suitable account of the syntax-semantics interface, all cases of the phenomenon in question are accounted for in terms of the relevant properties of semantic/pragmatics; hence no complications are necessary in syntax.

    X is for X-bar Theory « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • Unlike the memorable pattern names from that other luminous book Design Patterns (1995) – Singleton, Observer, Visitor, etc. – the anti-pattern names in Refactoring sometimes degenerate into the ludicrous: Feature Envy, Inappropriate Intimacy, Primitive Obsession, Speculative Generality, ...

    Archive 2007-01-01 Jonathan Aquino 2007

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