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Agreed. There's abstraction and then there's abstraction. I might have been in the camp of Go enthusiasts if my experience with abstraction only included C++ or
by rubiquity 11y ago
Agreed. There's abstraction and then there's abstraction. I might have been in the camp of Go enthusiasts if my experience with abstraction only included C++ or Java. But once I discovered Standard ML and OCaml I found out how wonderful abstraction can be.
- bkeroack 11y agoI'm not sure many people are arguing that abstraction isn't good for those who are writing the code--that's the whole point of abstraction after all, to make the developer's job easier. The problems tend to crop up for other people trying to decipher and read it. Sometimes also for the machine trying to execute it.