“Perhaps one could argue that the studiously acquired lens that allows one to
think about the detailed mechanisms of a computer program is not helpful, nor
anywhere close to correct and is not an efficient way to reason about the world
outside the computer?”
In that case, one can combine a lens that informs how to construct computer
programs with another lens that captures domain requirements and that enables
experimentation using a more convenient language.
This goes by names like application, simulation, library, or embedded domain
specific language (EDSL).
Some examples:
https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/
http://www.gromacs.org/
http://halide-lang.org/
https://people.csail.mit.edu/yuantang/pochoir.html
https://github.com/RuleWorld/bionetgen
https://archives.haskell.org/projects.haskell.org/diagrams/
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