A twitter conversation I followed minutes ago sparked this memory:
“the purpose of abstracting is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.”
I think the first time I used the above argument from Dijkstra was when huku and @_argp made their excellent presentation about memory allocators back in OWASP AppSecEU 2012.
[EWD340]
Managing organized complexity 