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leaky abstraction

noun

Etymology

Popularised in 2002 by software engineer Joel Spolsky.

Definitions

  1. An abstraction that undesirably exposes details and limitations of its underlying…

    An abstraction that undesirably exposes details and limitations of its underlying implementation.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for leaky abstraction. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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