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.

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More importantly though, abstraction means you don't have to fiddle with the details when doing the higher-order stuff. Hiding also means, in a way, making something automatic.

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