Python is readable
alex23
wuwei23 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 1 23:30:35 EDT 2012
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.
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