I don't think anyone understands abstractions right away. Most people learn through examples, and have to recreate the abstractions themselves, even if the abst

I don't think anyone understands abstractions right away. Most people learn through examples, and have to recreate the abstractions themselves, even if the abstraction is explained as well as possible. I think the main difference is purely in which abtraction people prefer to think in (imperative, OOP, functional, etc) but everyone wants to turn it into something else because to them, their model "feels" more right.