The Law of Leaky Abstractions 524
Joel Spolsky has a nice essay on the leaky abstractions which underlie all high-level programming. Good reading, even for non-programmers.
Real Programmers don't write in FORTRAN. FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies. FORTRAN is for wimp engineers who wear white socks.
After a long night of coding once (Score:2, Funny)
Abstraction: (Score:3, Funny)
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even for non-programmers (Score:3, Funny)
Re:After a long night of coding once (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Good Points.... (Score:2, Funny)
And my first-year computer scientist coworker wonders why I think VB and
Leaky slashdotted server... (Score:3, Funny)
Unfortunately, his Slashdotted server is proving that to us right now.
Re:Good Points.... (Score:2, Funny)
You can tell I'm tired. I read that line like this:
The more lawyers, the slower things get.
Well, it's true...
I'm sorry.. (Score:3, Funny)
It seems like your keyboard keeps dropping packets. Could we have a repost of this comment?
Everything is an abstraction (Score:2, Funny)
oh come on.... Nothing is fullproof... every element of computing is an abstraction of something else.... Even assembly code is an abstraction of processor commands...
Not trying to insult the guy, he wrote a great article... but every time you use any command in any language your using an abstraction of many more commands... all we do in coding is build yet more tools not in any way disimilar from the ones were already using... Classes and functions, even straightly scripted programs.
My sense of smell is an abstraction from my nose's ability to respond to chemicals... So when i smell shit i suppose thats a leaky abstraction because i dont want to smell it....