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gowld on April 8, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Commits are snapshots not diffs (2020)

> All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.

You look a bit silly making grandiose comments that take one web searching to disprove

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...

> All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.

breischl on April 8, 2021 | [–]

I'm fairly certain he was disagreeing with the content of the statement, not that Joel Spolsky wrote it.

ie, yes Spolsky said that, but he was wrong.

Ericson2314 on April 8, 2021 | | [–]

Yes, thanks

heinrich5991 on April 8, 2021 | [–]

I think the emphasis was one "great". I.e. your parent wants to say that this thing Joel wrote was not great.

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