On: Low Hanging Fruit of Programming Language Design

[usrusr]

...that only the author can understand, and not after being done writing. But still, good abstractions are much better than duplicated code, yet bad abstractions can easily be worse.

"Minimize both duplication and bad abstractions" should be something everybody can get behind, even if only because it leaves all the details open.

[dragonwriter → usrusr]

> "Minimize both duplication and bad abstractions" should be something everybody can get behind, even if only because it leaves all the details open.

Leaving all the details open means the slogan is content-free. Why would anyone get behind it?

[usrusr → dragonwriter]

Usually it happens when people put their favorite ideas into the blanks and do not realize that others could fill them in a different way.