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10. Façade

Dmitri Nesteruk1  
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St. Petersburg, Russia
 

First, let’s get the linguistic issue out of the way: that little hook on the letter Ç is called a cedilla and the letter itself is pronounced as an S, so the word “façade” is pronounced as fah-saad. The particularly pedantic among you are welcome to use the letter Ç/ç in your code, since most compilers treat it just fine, but you will need to save the source code in a suitable encoding (I recommend UTF-8) in order for the compiler to process it correctly.1

Now, about the pattern itself… essentially, the best analogy I can think of is a typical house. When you buy a house, you generally ...

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