Comment on Alan Kay: Power of Simplicity [video]parentComments−papaf10ya higher level of abstraction can make problems more tractableI think of an abstraction of something that makes things simpler:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_%28computer_scienc...I understood Alan Kay to be saying that a lot of abstractions are actually making things too simple. I would understand the point to mean "a lower level of abstraction can make the big picture more tractable".
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a higher level of abstraction can make problems more tractable
I think of an abstraction of something that makes things simpler:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_%28computer_scienc...
I understood Alan Kay to be saying that a lot of abstractions are actually making things too simple. I would understand the point to mean "a lower level of abstraction can make the big picture more tractable".