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I don't really agree, the point is to provide high-level abstractions that hide a bunch of complexity. But even in a high-level non-functional language, there's

I don't really agree, the point is to provide high-level abstractions that hide a bunch of complexity. But even in a high-level non-functional language, there's not a lot of friction in terms of the model of the language vs the hardware. An array of ints in java is basically 1:1 to the underlying continuous, mutable block of memory.

jhgb 5y ago
> the point is to provide high-level abstractions that hide a bunch of complexity And these abstractions are not hiding the model of the machine? For example the machine has a small set of fixed-size registers, but your language probably has an unlimited amount of arbitrarily sized, lexically-scoped local variables.