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Re:80 front-end job applications – nearly no one had basic H... by saulrh on Friday January 22, 2016 @11:19AM (#10953582)
A lot of these objections to abstraction sound like the objections to abstraction that we had back when we first invented interpreters and compilers. Are you sure that you want to be objecting to abstraction itself, rather than to our current, potentially inferior, implementations of abstractions?
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Re:80 front-end job applications – nearly no one had basic H... by Silhouette on Friday January 22, 2016 @11:30AM (#10953682)
I'm not objecting to abstractions at all. I'm just advocating understanding the fundamentals first.

I want to use abstractions and tools where they offer an additional benefit, but without being limited to whatever some predetermined choice of tools or abstractions can do.

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