Jim Fulton wrote:
Shane Hathaway wrote:
+1. When I learn a skill, it is at first completely explicit, and as
the skill becomes predictable and reliable, it gradually becomes
implicit. If I kept everything explicit, I would hinder myself from
building higher level skills.
So explicit is better than implicit until a sufficiently tight
abstraction comes about. Take memory management: yesterday it was
explicit (malloc/free); today it's mostly implicit (garbage
collection). Garbage collection is both an abstraction, since
programmers no longer manage memory directly, and an indirection,
since programmers now use APIs that call malloc and free. We all
agree GC is good, so explicit is definitely not always better than
implicit.
Thanks for explaining "Explicit is better than implicit,
except when it's not."
Admittedly, I should have posted that in my blog, not here. :-)
Shane
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