This gets to a fairly stark difference in how people model things. It is very common to model things in ways that are close to what is physically being described. Is why circuit simulators often let you show where and how the circuits are connected. Knowing what all can run at the same time is now very clear and knowing what can and cannot be reduced to each other is the same. If they are separate things in the model, then they remain separate.
Contrast this with symbolic code. Especially with the advent of optimizing compilers, you get very little to no reliable intuition on the order things operate. Or, even, how they operate.
Now, this is even crazier when you consider how people used to model things mathematically. It really drives home why people used to be far more interested in polynomials and such. Those were the bread and butter of mathematical modelling for a long time. Nowadays, we have moved far more strongly into a different form of metaphor for our modeling.
Contrast this with symbolic code. Especially with the advent of optimizing compilers, you get very little to no reliable intuition on the order things operate. Or, even, how they operate.
Now, this is even crazier when you consider how people used to model things mathematically. It really drives home why people used to be far more interested in polynomials and such. Those were the bread and butter of mathematical modelling for a long time. Nowadays, we have moved far more strongly into a different form of metaphor for our modeling.