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Jean Piaget for programmers: "Empirical abstractions concern observables and reflective abstractions concern coordinations." Noun-abstraction generalizes what things are; verb-abstraction generalizes what you do. Only the second creates something new.

27/7/26, 11:12 pm0 reposts2 likes

Benoît Fleury

@benfle.com

27 July

Well known idea for good programmers (verbs over nouns) but this is interesting to see the concept explained more formally.

Benoît Fleury

@benfle.com

27 July

SICP is also full of it. Unsurprisingly, since they endorse "procedural epistemology" at the beginning.