On Mar 31, 2:02 am, Steve Howell <showel...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Steven, how do you predict which abstractions are going to be useless?
A useless abstraction is one that does nothing to simplify a problem *now*: > being so fixated on over-arching abstract > concepts that, far from those abstractions making it easier to solve the > problems they are being paid to solve, they actually make them harder An abstraction is also useless if it's so clever that it isn't readily understandable to an average developer; architecture astronauts don't tend to be big on sticking around to provide ongoing support. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
