> Frankly, I can't reconcile "data-centric" programming foundations that completely gloss over the dirty realities of bits and pointers--the real foundation of

> Frankly, I can't reconcile "data-centric" programming foundations that completely gloss over the dirty realities of bits and pointers--the real foundation of data and data structures. "Bits and pointers" are not the real foundation of data. It's voltages, chips and the chemistry & physics that support them. Being serious though, all computing is an abstraction. Use the appropriate abstraction for your domain. If your domain isn't directly how the data is stored then don't start with the physics, chemistry, chips, pointers and bits.