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There's nothing wrong with that, but physics and math are also about taking understanding, then building useful abstractions around it to deal with inherent com
by duped 4y ago
There's nothing wrong with that, but physics and math are also about taking understanding, then building useful abstractions around it to deal with inherent complexity.
I find the "complexity bad and makes me sad" attitude around development to be almost paradoxical - our job is literally to abstract things. If you seek for complete understanding you'll never find it. There's always an abstraction underneath and one to build on top.
- the_only_law 4y agoThat’s fair, FWIW, I don’t hate abstractions, and often prefer them (recently had a project I switched form primarily C to primarily Erlang because the abstractions provided allowed an amazing level of expressiveness given my project), but I like having a idea of how my abstractions work and preferably where to look when they fail.