>>When given a choice to create that sort of abstraction between having one line of code that doesn't give me options to configure the functionality or 10 lines of code where I can get exactly what I need, which do you think is better?
So why do so many Americans drive Automatic cars? Because they like encapsulation! And sometimes there are better things to worry about than clutching in and out of first gear in a traffic jam, even if you do a great job of it ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
