It's not supposed to mean something. It's supposed to mean anything, so your imagination, excitement and greed can inpaint the rest. "Then they go up one more

It's not supposed to mean something. It's supposed to mean anything, so your imagination, excitement and greed can inpaint the rest. "Then they go up one more level: people send files, but web browsers also “send” requests for web pages. And when you think about it, calling a method on an object is like sending a message to an object! It’s the same thing again! Those are all sending operations, so our clever thinker invents a new, higher, broader abstraction called messaging, but now it’s getting really vague and nobody really knows what they’re talking about any more. Blah. When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don’t know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don’t actually mean anything at all." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28353157 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28353157 — Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (2001) (joelonsoftware.com)