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by elvlysh 444 days ago
Pretty much every reputable computer scientist has been saying for the last 70 years that the most important thing in the entire world is simplicity and ease of understanding.
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First of all, that is not true. But even if it were, those are not the same thing as how easy something is for beginners.

Abstractions make large systems easier to understand, not harder. Each line of Go is easy to understand, but whole programs are not.

>Abstractions make large systems easier to understand, not harder.

I raise you AbstractSingletonFactoryProxyBean.

Sorry I meant good abstractions, not all abstractions.