The Holistic Programmer
From xoa
"All non-trivial abstractions, to some extent, are leaky." -- Spolsky
Leaky abstractions:
- TCP/IP
- SQL
- Templates
- OpenGL
- C
- Lisp
- Video games
- C++ games
- Sockets
- ORMs
A pro programmer should be familiar with the layer directly above and below the layer he's working on.
I bailed on this because I couldn't see any point to this. He kept talking about layers and how stuff works, but not about why it's useful.
