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You can drive a car without knowing how an engine works. But you can't design a [good] car without that knowledge.
by moe 15y ago
You can drive a car without knowing how an engine works. But you can't design a [good] car without that knowledge.
- glenjamin 15y agoI'm not convinced analogies such as this are particularly useful. I'm pretty sure you could design a perfectly good car by treating an engine as a black box with a clearly defined set of inputs an outputs without caring how those inputs are translated in the outputs. Which is the goal of a framework such as rails.
- Tyr42 15y agoBut I doubt that you could maintain it without knowing how it worked. The moment anything went wrong, you would be in trouble. I'm sure you could build a car that looked pretty, but not one that ran well.