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Comment by glitchc

6 hours ago

Hard disagree with the initial assumption: Abstractions do not make a system simpler.

Note: I would have added usually but I really do mean always.

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love2read  6 hours ago

the thing about abstractions is that nothing implies that they aren’t leaky abstractions, which may be worse than no abstraction for future bug hunters

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