Abstraction considered harmful

From SICP:

We control complexity by building abstractions that hide details when appropriate

Which means that with abstraction the whole system will grow and bloat without the programmer noticing it.

Discuss

>>33
Why the fuck are all you kiddie shits so afraid of complexity?

My parents read me this post once when I was younger:

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.html

(not sure who's that guy. found it through links from a friend's blog, and since I knew too little about java or systems programming, I probably gave it too much importance. bleh, anyway it's a good post)