[alex_young]

Coding is an abstraction. Your CPU knows nothing of type safety, bloom filters, dependencies, or code reuse.

Mourning the passing of one form of abstraction for another is understandable, but somewhat akin to bemoaning the passing of punch card programming. Sure, why not.

[zeroonetwothree]

Your entire brain's model of the world is an abstraction over its sensory inputs. By this logic we might as well say you shouldn't mourn anything since all it means is a minor difference in the sensory inputs your brain receives.