> programmers are fashion-driven to the point of absurdity. On a certain level of abstraction, there is really no right or wrong, just different. And it become

> programmers are fashion-driven to the point of absurdity. On a certain level of abstraction, there is really no right or wrong, just different. And it becomes a matter of taste. That and the limitations of the human brain. We cannot remember a billion assembly instructions, so we have to abstract, and create layers of abstractions in order to get to human level of tangibility. Only problem is that the more layers we pile on the more complex the stack becomes, and it get even more difficult to comprehend, so we get an exponential explosion of complexity. And the only thing limiting the complexity is hardware performance. So if computers keep getting faster we will be doomed.