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by consilient
1032 days ago
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The point of abstraction is to reduce the number of concepts in play. If you're still tracking which old concept is "really" being used every time, you haven't actually abstracted over anything, you're just naming things badly. |
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I'm not sure I agree with this. For me, the point of abstraction is divide the number of concepts between the layers you introduce, effectively to hide concepts from the layers where you don't want to have to care about them. Often times, abstractions adds the total number of concepts at play, but hides them beneath/above the layers.