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The power of abstraction

Arik on December 06, 2018

If someone had asked me "what is the number 1, absolutely most important concept in all of software development?" I would answer it using one wor...
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Thomas Junkツ • Edited

Abstraction is the most powerful and the most dangerous tool in your belt: you could build bridges over canyons or dig yourself into a hole.
Abstraction oftentimes comes with its evil brother complexity. You invite one to the party and both come. You need to have an eye on both.

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Boris Jamot ✊ /

So true!

We have to keep pragmatic.

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Santee

YEAH!
The abstraction guide you to the real important thing, Design!
For me, in the Object oriented design, thanks to abstraction you can design the Business Logic with the Design Principles in mind, that's access you to better use of Interfaces or abstract classes.
At present, I work with people that just write code and create table in the databases. Those systems don't have design and maintenance is too hard.

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Nam Nguyen

I like the example about human body.

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Andrew Do Jr

That's the best shit that i ever heard about Abstraction

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Ben Halpern

Beautifully said

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umar-daraz

Well said

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Rifai Martin

I want to see more about writing like this, besides being easy to understand this looks very interesting

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Rifai Martin

the best