Comment by esafak

4 days ago

Increased abstraction is why we don't all program in assembly any more.

Agreed, but my point is that an abstraction should provide discernible gain of value, not merely roll a handful of operations of the same level into one.

  • Or, to re-word it in the words of the parent comment, that's why we don't write write programs in assembler that output even more assembler.