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If your point is, "abstractions don't have zero cost" point taken. But if your point is, "abstractions have meaningful cost", I'd rephrase that as, "The better

by Zetice 4y ago

If your point is, "abstractions don't have zero cost" point taken. But if your point is, "abstractions have meaningful cost", I'd rephrase that as, "The better an abstraction is, the closer to zero its cost becomes." Can we agree on that?

addaon 4y ago
Absolutely. And in particular, I'd like to rephrase my original statement of: > Outsourcing of complexity is /not/ elimination of complexity. to > Outsourcing of complexity /reduces/ complexity, but not all the way to zero.
- Zetice 4y ago
  Woo, agreement! And a good point, too!