What happened to abstraction? I think that's the real gotcha of programming. The programming languages today probably are better described as "good generaliza

What happened to abstraction? I think that's the real gotcha of programming. The programming languages today probably are better described as "good generalizations" of the operations available on a CPU, and the abstraction leaks quite a bit when doing certain things like needing to deal with synchronization. If our programming languages were designed to be perfect abstractions, there'd probably be a subset of the english languages that could described/translate everything to machine code, but that's definitely not the case reality today. So, up till 2010, in my opinion, to get the machine to do exactly something without fail, this article is very relevant.