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Today’s Dilbert amused me.

One of the standard problems in all system design is what to call the root of your class hierarchy. I worked for a company once that started with the name “object,” and then in a later version they wanted something yet more general so the inserted “entity” above object. Later yet they inserted “item” above entity.

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