Adrian Bateman

Englishman in Seattle.

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The Law of Leaky Abstractions. [Joel on Software]

_"Ten years ago, we might have imagined that new programming paradigms would have made programming easier by now."  "...when you need to hire a programmer to do mostly VB programming, it's not good enough to hire a VB programmer, because they will get completely stuck in tar every time the VB abstraction leaks."_ > >

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