Programming is always a modelling of real-world process. If you want to program directly for the CPU, it is this device which provides you with operation primitives which you sequence. Perhaps you mean you'd prefer to model more interesting processes.

But if you mean algorithm design, that isn't programming. Algorithms arent programs, and the "operations" that they "sequence" are abstract. CSCi alg. design is more like geometry.

Programming is an empirical discipline; it uses the "geometry" of csci to build applications.