Increased abstraction is why we don't all program in assembly any more.

Agreed, but my point is that an abstraction should provide discernible gain of value, not merely roll a handful of operations of the same level into one.

	▲	Joker_vD 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Or, to re-word it in the words of the parent comment, that's why we don't write write programs in assembler that output even more assembler.