Python is readable

[Steve Howell]

On Apr 1, 8:30 pm, alex23 <wuwe... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 31, 2:02 am, Steve Howell <showel... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Steven, how do you predict which abstractions are going to be useless?
>
> A useless abstraction is one that does nothing to simplify a problem
> *now*:

That's the very definition of short-sighted thinking.  If it doesn't
do anything *now*....

>
> > being so fixated on over-arching abstract
> > concepts that, far from those abstractions making it easier to solve the
> > problems they are being paid to solve, they actually make them harder
>
> An abstraction is also useless if it's so clever that it isn't readily
> understandable to an average developer; architecture astronauts don't
> tend to be big on sticking around to provide ongoing support.

You are careless and sloppy with your quoting here.  I didn't say the
above; you should give proper attribution.