[gruseom]

That's been my experience too. Part of this difficulty, though, is that it requires going against our training and culture. This raises the question of how much easier it might get with different training and culture.

That's one thing that's so intriguing about Moore. He's a living specimen of an alternate computing history. I sometimes wonder what would have happened if he had been in, say, Backus's position at the dawn of high-level languages.