If you take the premise of this article literally - then since 1975 computers have gotten inordinately more complex, but we've developed no abstractions to help programmers deal with it.
I rather thought he was saying that since 1975 there have been abstractions developed, but people aren't taking advantage of them. Or perhaps people are not trusting them in this case.
Isn't it the abstraction (virtual memory) creating a problem in the first place? By programmers not understanding that an abstraction has been applied.
