> Instead, data needs to be viewed more abstractly. There is no instead here. This is not a choice that has to be made once and for all and there is no correct

> Instead, data needs to be viewed more abstractly. There is no instead here. This is not a choice that has to be made once and for all and there is no correct way to view things. Languages exist if you want to have a very abstract view of the data you are manipulating and they come with toolchains and compilers that will turn that into low level representation. That doesn’t preclude the interest of languages which expose this low level architecture.