4 ms·

The comment is praise for maintaining compatibility. To me, the sentence "It’s a testament to computer science that this has been so thoroughly abstracted over

The comment is praise for maintaining compatibility. To me, the sentence "It’s a testament to computer science that this has been so thoroughly abstracted over the years" means: "It’s a testament to computer science that the original notation has been successfully applied to many things without drastic changes". I don't know whether that is one of the standard definitions of the past tense verb "abstracted", but it's a common usage in software engineering.

mathisfun123 3y ago
> has been successfully applied to many things without drastic changes. but it's a common usage in software engineering. give me an example sentence. let me try one: "<protobufs> have been abstracted over the years because they have been applied to many things without drastic changes". doesn't work the only way in which "abstracted" is used in SWE is "abstracted away" or "abstracted out", which means ~the details aren't important or ~it's being handled by someone/something else for you. having written out this response i am now 100% sure it's the former in this case. no one seems to get that what i'm making fun of here is this person reveling in the fact that they don't have to understand type theory "like our forefathers did" but then stating that fact using theory speak. it's like which is it: do you care about abstractions and abstracting things out (and thus should be fine with type theory) or are you a blue collar dev that just copy-pastes. you can't have it both ways (certainly you might try but this leads to the cognitive dissonance on display here).