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EPISODE · Oct 25, 2018 · 6 MIN

What is “to reify” in software?

from The Eric Normand Podcast · host Eric Normand

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To reify” means “to make real”. It’s an old concept from philosophy. When you name a concept, you can start talking about it. We do something similar in programming. When you take a concept and make it first class, you can begin to manipulate it with the normal programming constructs.

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