Re: Obfuscations and little white lies
Re: Obfuscations and little white lies
- Subject: Re: Obfuscations and little white lies
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:39:00 +0000
On 17 Jan 2008, at 05:05, Ed Stockly wrote:
I have to echo previous posters' opinions that hiding the details
from scripters does them a disservice
Every computer language hides details from programmers/scripters/
users, that's kind of why we have languages. The higher level
language the more is hidden.
Abstraction != obfuscation.
A *good* abstraction hides all the details that the user doesn't need
to be aware of in order to use it. This is simplification, which is a
Good Thing.
A *bad* abstraction hides details that the user does need to be aware
of, and/or does a sufficiently bad job of hiding details that the user
ends up having to deal with them anyway. This is obfuscation, which is
Not A Good Thing.
has
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