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The phrase "abstract the programmer from what's actually being produced and I can't help thinking that this is a bad thing" sounds weird given the fact that you
by fbuilesv 15y ago
The phrase "abstract the programmer from what's actually being produced and I can't help thinking that this is a bad thing" sounds weird given the fact that you're using Java, a technology that also abstracts some of the underlying capabilities of the C/ASM system you're using.
Abstraction itself is not bad thing. Knowing that a lot of the technologies that we're using today will be obsolete in 10 years is not a good enough reason to stop trying new things.
- hopeless 15y agoWe don't write 1's and 0's. Programming is an abstraction. But we still need to pick and choose what abstractions we use and where. Do the benefits of that abstraction outweigh the problems it creates? In the case of HAML (and ECS, grrr...) I don't think it does.