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		nathias on March 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Abstraction: Not what you think it is This is a fairly common sense notion of abstraction (abstraction as abstracting away the details of something), but I don't think its the whole picture. I'm studying abstraction and the best formulation of this aspect I found was abstraction as the degree of complexity encapsulation.

prionassembly on March 30, 2022 [–]

Yea, but this complexity is not inherent to code.

nathias on March 30, 2022 | [–]

What do you mean? Of course it is, all code is leaky abstractions.

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