Abstractions are necessary to write software, unless you speak binary code, so calling them evil is a bit hyperbolic. My point is at some level you have to trus

Abstractions are necessary to write software, unless you speak binary code, so calling them evil is a bit hyperbolic. My point is at some level you have to trust the abstractions of a system or else nothing would get done. That doesn't mean you shouldn't have a conceptual understanding of the lower levels, but they aren't evil!