On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:37:09 -0400, Nathan Rice wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Albert van der Horst > <alb...@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> wrote: >> In article <mailman.896.1332440814.3037.python-l...@python.org>, Nathan >> Rice <nathan.alexander.r...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
> Of course, I will give Joel one point: too many things related to > programming are 100% hype, without any real substance; if his article > had been about bullshit software hype and he hadn't fired the broadsides > at the very notion of abstraction He did no such thing. I challenge you to find me one place where Joel has *ever* claimed that "the very notion of abstraction" is meaningless or without use. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
