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Non-interference

``Instead of a bit-grinding process ... plundering data structures, we have a universe of well-behaved object that courteously ask each other to carry out their various desires'' -- Dan Ingalls.
``Ask not what you can do to your data structures, but ask what your data structures can do for you''