On Apr 1, 8:30 pm, alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 31, 2:02 am, Steve Howell <showel...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Steven, how do you predict which abstractions are going to be useless? > > A useless abstraction is one that does nothing to simplify a problem > *now*:
That's the very definition of short-sighted thinking. If it doesn't do anything *now*.... > > > being so fixated on over-arching abstract > > concepts that, far from those abstractions making it easier to solve the > > problems they are being paid to solve, they actually make them harder > > An abstraction is also useless if it's so clever that it isn't readily > understandable to an average developer; architecture astronauts don't > tend to be big on sticking around to provide ongoing support. You are careless and sloppy with your quoting here. I didn't say the above; you should give proper attribution. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
