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> The vast majority of software engineering consists of simple operations that move data from one place to another

All computing "consists of simple operations that move data from one place to another", that's essentially the foundation of computer science.

It seems you're trying to say "most software isn't that complicated", which obviously isn't true, in fact, the opposite is true: most software is a complicated mess.




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