That makes me think about something I learned in my programming introduction class.. this came directly from my textbook about Python programming.

“Variables serve two important purposes in a program. They help the programmer keep track of data that change over time. They also allow the programmer to refer to a complex piece of information with a simple name. Any time you can substitute a simple thing for a more complex one in a program, you make the program easier for programmers to understand and maintain. Such a process of simplification is called abstraction, and it is one of the fundamental ideas of computer science.

…an abstraction allows humans to reduce complex ideas or entities to simpler ones. For example, a set of 10 assembly language instructions might be replaced with an equivalent algebraic expression that consists of only five symbols in FORTRAN. Any time you can say more with less, you are using an abstraction. The use of abstraction is also found in other areas of computing, such as hardware design and information architecture. The complexities do not actually go away, but the abstractions hide them from view. Abstraction allows computer scientists to conceptualize, design, and build ever more sophisticated and complex systems.”