[pombo]

I'm not sure I agree with the fact that an abstraction is always the answer, but your last sentence outlines precisely one of our motivations behind Marsha. You can specify an imperative set of steps in the description of a function/program, or you can (in the future) write a Python function that you use from Marsha

[_ea1k]

The first sentence was a little tongue in cheek, so I'm glad that you didn't 100% agree with it. :) But it was a all-too-common paradigm in my early years as a Java developer.