> -- to enable programmers to see and understand the execution of their programs

The article disagrees with the idea that in order to _understand_ the machine, you must _become_ the machine. But, how to understand how it works without visualizing it quite concretely...

The ability to visualize and work with complex systems entirely in your head is a skill developed by an engineering education, and presumably by a software education too.

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