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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
All Abstractions Are Failed Abstractions
From the Coding Horror Blog
In programming, abstractions are powerful things:
Joel Spolsky has an article in which he states
All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.
This is overly dogmatic - for example, bignum classes are exactly the same regardless of the native integer multiplication. Ignoring that, this statement is essentia
In programming, abstractions are powerful things:
Joel Spolsky has an article in which he states
All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.
This is overly dogmatic - for example, bignum classes are exactly the same regardless of the native integer multiplication. Ignoring that, this statement is essentia
// posted by Anonymous @ 12:00 AM 
