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born 1939 United States

Barbara Liskov (born 1939-11-07 as Barbara Jane Huberman) is an American computer scientist who has made pioneering contributions to programming languages and distributed computing.

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"Recall that the main idea is... implementations of the same abstraction can be substituted freely."

Data abstractions provide the same benefits as procedures, but for data. Recall that the main idea is to separate what an abstraction is from how it is implemented so that implementations of the same abstraction can be substituted freely.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Barbara Liskov (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.