> To me, an abstraction is a piece of code that’s expressed in high-level language so that the distracting details are abstracted away That might be what an ab

> To me, an abstraction is a piece of code that’s expressed in high-level language so that the distracting details are abstracted away That might be what an abstraction is to the author, but it's not a correct definition. Abstraction has nothing at all do with the high or low level languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_(computer_science) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_(computer_science)