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The original was posted on /r/programminglanguages by /u/tobega on 2026-04-21 05:41:59+00:00.

In the 1950s, programming languages rose above the level of direct machine instructions to be based on the mathematical models of computation instead.

This is still quite low-level compared to what programmers really want to achieve, which makes code harder to write and review than would be desirable. Making the connection between the code and the program logic more direct would have real economic consequences.

In this essay I take a look at that intent-to-implementation gap and some possible re-imaginings of how things could work.

https://tobega.blogspot.com/2026/04/rising-above-mechanics-of-computation.html