[pjmlp]

That's why CS matters.

Anyone with a good CS background can think abstractly in terms of algorithms and data structures, instead of focusing in language X with feature list Y.

[Scarblac]

But languages differ in how much of that they abstract away from you. If the language already does a lot of those algorithms and data structures with minimal syntax, the CS guy can think on an even higher level of abstraction.

[pjmlp]

There is not much more level abstraction than lambda calculus, logic, denotational semantics and similar though processes.

But I get your point of not having to deal with low level details.

[sklogic]

You'd be surprised - there is an infinite hierarchy of abstractions above the primitive level you're talking about.

[sklogic]

Algorithms and data structures are on a too low level of abstraction in order to be useful in solving real world problems. Most problem domains are not expressed in terms of algorithms and data structures, they're rather formalised as languages.