Is abstraction the key to computing?

Jeff Kramer. Is abstraction the key to computing?. Communications of the ACM, 50(4):36-42, 2007. [doi]

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  title = {Is abstraction the key to computing?},
  author = {Jeff Kramer},
  year = {2007},
  doi = {10.1145/1232743.1232745},
  url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1232743.1232745},
  tags = {abstraction},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/Kramer07},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  journal = {Communications of the ACM},
  volume = {50},
  number = {4},
  pages = {36-42},
}