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That's computer science, I guess

That's computer science, I guess

Posted Aug 13, 2011 0:29 UTC (Sat) by ringerc (subscriber, #3071)
In reply to: That's computer science, I guess by ncm
Parent article: Avoiding the OS abstraction trap

Except sluggishness, maintainability, reliability and compiled binary size.

Over-abstraction has plenty of costs. I've been guilty of it enough to know.


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That's computer science, I guess

Posted Aug 14, 2011 19:36 UTC (Sun) by nowster (subscriber, #67) [Link]

Except sluggishness, maintainability, reliability, compiled binary size and a fanatical devotion to quoting Monty Python scripts.

I'll come in again...

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