abstractions should be narrow but deep
…From John Ousterhout in [[A Philosophy of Software Design]], the ideal interface for a unit of code (e.g…
A Philosophy of Software Design
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Contents
book by John Osterhout
Key points:
- the best APIs are narrow but deep
- writing and critiquing code with others is the best way to improve (a point which GeePaw Hill recently made as well). Similar to quantity leads to quality.