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Like everything that grows too complex, someone will find a way to hide a lot of it behind a simple abstraction layer, and call this layer a framework. And when
by maxklein 17y ago
Like everything that grows too complex, someone will find a way to hide a lot of it behind a simple abstraction layer, and call this layer a framework. And when that framework is around long enough and has grown sufficiently complex, it will get abstracted again.
It seems to me that when things become messes, that's when people step in to clean them.
- DanHulton 17y agoAll problems in Computer Science can be solved by another layer of abstraction, except for too many layers of abstraction. -- Butler Lampson
- steveklabnik 17y ago> And when that framework is around long enough and has grown sufficiently complex, it will get abstracted again. Eventually, it's just turtles all the way down.