Stephen McConnell wrote:
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
Avalon has failed.
[snip]
Visions don't fail - they just change our understanding of what's possible.
Fair enough, allow me to rephrase:
avalon has showed (at the very least to *me*) that reusability by extreme abstraction doesn't work because the cost of harmonizing human perceptual differences at such high levels of abstraction is higher than the cost of creating the code.
Very true, this is indeed not a failure but a great lesson, but it didn't change my understanding of what's possible, it changed my understanding of what's efficient and socio-economically viable.
And IMO, Avalon is not.
-- Stefano.
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