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0 pointsfzeindl7mo ago0 comments

Agreed, but my point is that an abstraction should provide discernible gain of value, not merely roll a handful of operations of the same level into one.

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Joker_vD7mo ago

Or, to re-word it in the words of the parent comment, that's why we don't write write programs in assembler that output even more assembler.

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0 pointsfzeindl7mo ago0 comments

Agreed, but my point is that an abstraction should provide discernible gain of value, not merely roll a handful of operations of the same level into one.

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Joker_vD7mo ago

Or, to re-word it in the words of the parent comment, that's why we don't write write programs in assembler that output even more assembler.

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