EPISODE · Sep 21, 2019 · 14 MIN
The Law of Leaky Abstractions - Joel Spolsky - November 2002
from Tech Aloud · host DJ Adams
Source: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/ This post is 17 years old, but still totally relevant today in what it teaches us - that while we construct new software architectures on top of older ones, things are still hard - harder, even - when problems occur. And there's a great line in this article that is worth quoting here: "... abstractions save us time working, but they don’t save us time learning".
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Source: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/ This post is 17 years old, but still totally relevant today in what it teaches us - that while we construct new software architectures on top of older ones, things are still hard - harder, even - when problems occur. And there's a great line in this article that is worth quoting here: "... abstractions save us time working, but they don’t save us time learning".
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