I agree. I beleive that most of the incidental complexity has to do with the fact that in end, every single thing greater than a single bit in the digital realm is a convention.
A byte is a convention over bits.
An instruction is a convention over bytes.
A programming language is a convention over instructions.
It turns out that every time someone sets out to solve a problem with programming, they create their own convention.
It just so happens that either there is no convetion over how to create covnentions, or it is just not followed and thus creates a paralel convention.
We cannot get our arbitrary conventions in line with each other, unless we plan in advance.
Considering, its amazing how far we have come in the middle of this chaos of unrestrained creation.
A byte is a convention over bits. An instruction is a convention over bytes. A programming language is a convention over instructions.
It turns out that every time someone sets out to solve a problem with programming, they create their own convention.
It just so happens that either there is no convetion over how to create covnentions, or it is just not followed and thus creates a paralel convention.
We cannot get our arbitrary conventions in line with each other, unless we plan in advance.
Considering, its amazing how far we have come in the middle of this chaos of unrestrained creation.