>"We developed methods of building nested layers of abstractions, hiding information at multiple levels. We took the problem of constructing software and morphe

>"We developed methods of building nested layers of abstractions, hiding information at multiple levels. We took the problem of constructing software and morphed it into towering layers." https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_(computer_science) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_(computer_science) (Compare and contrast!)