Python is readable

[alex23]

On Mar 31, 2:02 am, Steve Howell <showel... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Steven, how do you predict which abstractions are going to be useless?

A useless abstraction is one that does nothing to simplify a problem
*now*:

> being so fixated on over-arching abstract
> concepts that, far from those abstractions making it easier to solve the
> problems they are being paid to solve, they actually make them harder

An abstraction is also useless if it's so clever that it isn't readily
understandable to an average developer; architecture astronauts don't
tend to be big on sticking around to provide ongoing support.