Originally posted 2015-09-15/Modified 2016-01-06

The difference between the right abstraction and the wrong abstraction is a huge difference in simplicity and clarity.

"I do believe that bulk, in programming or writing, can sometimes be an inverse measure of clarity of thought." – Leland Wilkinson, The Grammar of Graphics

bloatware reflects design-by-committee and sloppy thinking.

propositional logic vs predicate calculus

A programming problem can be described as a set of

preconditions

and requirements.

Every programming problem has an infinite number of solutions

no-free-lunch theorem