Divide and conquer to make our programs modular so we can write them a little piece at a time and understand them a little piece at a time.

我们把程序分解为模块逐个击破,以便我们能一次写一小段,一次理解一点儿，现在我觉得。

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It's a way of breaking the code up into modules. Modules that makes sense on their own. Modules that we can reuse in multiple places. Modules that, if you like, Isolate components of the process.

能将代码分解为模块,模块能够独自运作,我们能在很多地方再利用这些模块,如果你喜欢的话，模块可以被看作是过程独立的组成部分。

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or at least one mechanism, I shouldn't say -- the only one-- one mechanism for doing that is going to be to add functions is that it's going to provide both of these things, so the first thing it's going to do is, it's going to let us break up into modules.

我们处理这些的机制--至少一种机制,我不会说只有一种,一种机制是在我们的语言中增加函数,函数的关键是它要提供分解和抽象,所以第一件要做的事，就是将代码分解为模块。

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