That’s sound advice for the day-to-day of programming but I think it still misses much of the power of abstraction. If you choose a different abstraction you mi

That’s sound advice for the day-to-day of programming but I think it still misses much of the power of abstraction. If you choose a different abstraction you might find a completely different way to express your solution which could be orders of magnitude less code. Perhaps the most absurd example of such a thing I can think of is when people figure out they can replace some gigantic mapreduce cluster with an awk one-liner and have it actually run faster.