Comments on: On Abstraction Layers http://endot.org/2008/08/14/on-abstraction-layers/ random seepage from the brain of a geek Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:54:05 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: trinity http://endot.org/2008/08/14/on-abstraction-layers/comment-page-1/#comment-19 trinity Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:42:19 +0000 http://endot.org/?p=52#comment-19 I don't pretend to even be a novice programmer, but I am picking up a lot of Perl in my current job. I've been learning how to use Perl packages and so forth to take short cuts to output things like HTML and other various ways of formatting text. Everything you just said makes so much sense. The point of any technology is to make tasks simple, in order to focus your energy on an other task that deserves your attention. I'm so thankful every time I find a package that allows me to write a perl script to interface with an SQL database, or output to HTML so that I don't have to remember how to address things in more than one method. That is what a good tool does, and a DAL is just another tool that helps a programmer get the job done. Woe to those who make their programing about using a tool, instead of using the right tool to program what they need, for they shall experience much weeping and gnashing of teeth. I don’t pretend to even be a novice programmer, but I am picking up a lot of Perl in my current job. I’ve been learning how to use Perl packages and so forth to take short cuts to output things like HTML and other various ways of formatting text. Everything you just said makes so much sense. The point of any technology is to make tasks simple, in order to focus your energy on an other task that deserves your attention. I’m so thankful every time I find a package that allows me to write a perl script to interface with an SQL database, or output to HTML so that I don’t have to remember how to address things in more than one method. That is what a good tool does, and a DAL is just another tool that helps a programmer get the job done.

Woe to those who make their programing about using a tool, instead of using the right tool to program what they need, for they shall experience much weeping and gnashing of teeth.

]]>