"The higher level your language the more place there is for bugs to hide and if you actually believed that higher level languages would isolate you from the mac

"The higher level your language the more place there is for bugs to hide and if you actually believed that higher level languages would isolate you from the machine sufficiently that you could ignore reality then you had it coming." I think this is because the abstraction is leaking. For example, such things as linked lists are not abstract enough to forget about underlying implementation, as they translate to actual memory blocks actually allocated in physical memory, and the programmer has to consider caching problems. If the system could analyze caching problems on its own and decide when to use contiguous arrays, and when to use linked lists, it would be closer to actual high level programming.