Abstractions in programming, while hiding complexity and creating more distance to that machine code, help programmers get closer to the actual problems they’re trying to solve.

Where a programming language typically allows to implement any type of application, there are also DSLs (Domain-specific languages), which provide further abstraction, but are also specialized to ...

"We don't program in assembly anymore," she said. "Most of us don't even program in C, and then you're kind of higher and higher layers of abstraction.

Lihong Cheng, Lei Feng, Zhiwu Li, Model abstraction for discrete-event systems by binary linear programming with applications to manufacturing systems, Science Progress (1933-), Vol. 104, No. 3 (2021) ...

How programming will change over the next 10 years: 5 predictions Your email has been sent 1. Programming will be more abstract 2. AI will become part of every developer’s toolkit–but won’t ...