Seeing that Uncle Bob is making a new version of Clean Code I decided to try and find this article about the original.

  • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
    51·
    4 months ago

    Why would you be interested in 6 levels of abstraction at once?

    Because there aren’t 6 interesting levels of abstraction. It’s like talking to a child:

    What are you doing?

    Finances

    What does that involve?

    Processing money.

    What kind of processing?

    Summarising

    What kind of summaries?

    Summaries of everything

    What specifically though?

    Summaries

    Ok so you’re just displaying total balance then…