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As features accumulate over time, I find this is harder and harder to maintain. But it heavily depends on the situation (abstractions don't always hold as well
by igrekel 17y ago
As features accumulate over time, I find this is harder and harder to maintain. But it heavily depends on the situation (abstractions don't always hold as well as originally hoped). I guess I just remember more the times it goes wrong than the times it went right.
- eru 17y agoOh, I often have to bang my head against the wall quite a few times, before I hit on the right abstraction. Having more powerful abstraction techniques, like they are possible in languages like Haskell or Scheme/Lisp, tends to give less leaky abstractions for me.