Optimizing Your Programming Language

"It's very hard for us to imagine our work directly in terms of electrons flowing through super complex circuit like a computer chip. So we need something to help usor make the work happen," he says. "Sometimes at a certain point the abstractions become an impediment to making the work that you want to have it happen." 'We can accidentally, or through unskilful use of indirection, make something more difficult to control,' he adds.