Yep. One of my all-time favorite blog posts anywhere is his 2003 post "The .NET Abstraction Pile", where he lists 40-some different abstraction layers involved

Yep. One of my all-time favorite blog posts anywhere is his 2003 post "The .NET Abstraction Pile", where he lists 40-some different abstraction layers involved in clicking the "Check In" button in a networked version control system: https://ericsink.com/Abstraction_Pile.html https://ericsink.com/Abstraction_Pile.html A particularly good quote: > I stop whenever I get to Physics or Chemistry. For my purposes, light is real, not an abstraction.