At the hardware level, you have engineers building better and better cameras, giving computers improved sight with each passing year, which I can't say for myself.

在硬件层面，你有工程师制造出越来越好的相机，让计算机的视力逐年提高，我不能为自己说。

But programming at the hardware level is cumbersome and inflexible, so programmers wanted a more versatile way to program computers - what you might call a " softer" medium.

但是硬件级别的编程既麻烦又不灵活，因此程序员想要一种更通用的计算机编程方式——您可以称之为“更软”的媒介。