Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Leaky Abstractions

Today I came across an interesting article that sums up why abstractions still require one to know the lower levels. In essence, the author claims that abstractions are good and help us build complex systems, but are a great burden if something fails in the lower levels. I couldn't agree more, especially when I think of the TianoCore code and the UEFI software model.

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