Comments on: Layered Programming http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/192 Ian Lance Taylor Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:54:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: links for 2008-05-22 » SDLC Blog http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/192/comment-page-1#comment-13898 links for 2008-05-22 » SDLC Blog Thu, 22 May 2008 02:32:17 +0000 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/192#comment-13898 [...] Airs - Ian Lance Taylor » Layered Programming “What I wonder is whether we will again cohere to a programming model which can be understood at all relevant layers. Or whether things are just going to get increasingly complicated” (tags: programming model complexity) [...] [...] Airs – Ian Lance Taylor » Layered Programming “What I wonder is whether we will again cohere to a programming model which can be understood at all relevant layers. Or whether things are just going to get increasingly complicated” (tags: programming model complexity) [...]

]]> By: ncm http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/192/comment-page-1#comment-13667 ncm Fri, 16 May 2008 04:54:25 +0000 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/192#comment-13667 As in all early Spolsky columns, there's a bit of nonsense right in the foundation. I think we call this one "selection bias": the abstractions Joel notices are the ones that leak. The overwhelming majority of abstractions are airtight and invisible, at least to Joel. (You haven't noticed any iron nuclei decaying lately.) Joel has perhaps more experience with leakiness than most of us, from his time at Microsoft. As in all early Spolsky columns, there’s a bit of nonsense right in the foundation. I think we call this one “selection bias”: the abstractions Joel notices are the ones that leak. The overwhelming majority of abstractions are airtight and invisible, at least to Joel. (You haven’t noticed any iron nuclei decaying lately.) Joel has perhaps more experience with leakiness than most of us, from his time at Microsoft.

]]> By: Ian Lance Taylor http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/192/comment-page-1#comment-13659 Ian Lance Taylor Thu, 15 May 2008 21:50:22 +0000 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/192#comment-13659 Thanks for the link. You're right, and that was six years ago. Thanks for the link. You’re right, and that was six years ago.

]]> By: omkar http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/192/comment-page-1#comment-13642 omkar Thu, 15 May 2008 06:12:32 +0000 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/192#comment-13642 Thats exactly the concern of Joel Spolsky in his beautiful article named "The Law of Leaky Abstractions" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html Thats exactly the concern of Joel Spolsky in his beautiful article named “The Law of Leaky Abstractions”

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html

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