Burdening the reader. That's a good take-away for anyone reading this article. Every abstraction you introduce is a burden on your reader, user, and customer. T

Burdening the reader. That's a good take-away for anyone reading this article. Every abstraction you introduce is a burden on your reader, user, and customer. They will be more difficult to maintain without passing on your specialized knowledge. They will be slower than they otherwise would be. They come with a cost. These are machines we're programming. They have instruction sets and memory architectures. We need more languages like Jai, IMHO, that give more power to the programmer to exploit the target platform underneath and provide interesting patterns for controlling resources and transformations.