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Baypiggies Meeting June 25th,2009
Alex Martelli: Abstraction
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Jun 25, 2009 from 07:30 PM to 09:00 PM |
| Where | Symantec Corporation Symantec Vcafe 350 Ellis Street Mountain View, CA 94043 |
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7:30 pm: General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements.
7:35 - 8:40 pm: Technical Program
Topic: Abstractions
Speaker: Alex Martelli
Abstraction is a powerful servant, but a dangerous master. We code,
design, think, debug ... on a tower of abstractions. Spolsky's Law
tells us that "All abstractions leak". This talk explores why they
leak, why that's often a problem, what to do about it; I also cover
why sometimes abstractions SHOULD "leak", and how best to produce and
consume abstraction layers.
8:40 - 9 pm: Mapping/Random Access
Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics the announcer is interested in.
Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up individually on topics of interest.
