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Saturday, November 16, 2002

John Lam comments on Joel Spolsky's Law of Leaky Abstractions.
... they had to understand their technology at one level of abstraction lower than where they worked every day. ADO programmers needed to understand how their database worked, ASP programmers had to understand how IIS worked, Visual Studio developers needed to understand how the wizard-generated code worked.

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