Why do people say that, when the number one hardest problem is making good abstractions?
Because it’s a “famous” (in our circles) quote. You might prefer this one:
> There’s two hard problems in computer science: We only have one joke and it's not funny.
There are at least one more joke:
"There is 10 kinds of people, those who can read binary and those who can't."
Personally I prefer the cache invalidation one.
> "There is 10 kinds of people, those who can read binary and those who can't."
I like the continuation (which requires knowledge of the original): “And those who didn’t expect this joke to be in base 3”.
Names abstract things.
Because it’s a “famous” (in our circles) quote. You might prefer this one:
> There’s two hard problems in computer science: We only have one joke and it's not funny.
There are at least one more joke:
"There is 10 kinds of people, those who can read binary and those who can't."
Personally I prefer the cache invalidation one.
> "There is 10 kinds of people, those who can read binary and those who can't."
I like the continuation (which requires knowledge of the original): “And those who didn’t expect this joke to be in base 3”.
Names abstract things.