At the same time, abstraction in programming allowed those computer experts – now " professional programmers" – to create increasingly sophisticated programs, which would have taken millions, tens of millions, or even more lines of assembly code.

同时，编程中的抽象让那些计算机专家——现在是“专业程序员”——创造出越来越复杂的程序，这些程序可能需要数百万、数千万甚至更多行的汇编代码。