Agreed. And unless you are building your own framework from scratch, most of the hard problems are already solved for you. That's not to say it is necessaril

Agreed. And unless you are building your own framework from scratch, most of the hard problems are already solved for you. That's not to say it is necessarily trivial (though it can certainly be), but it is not, say, researching new sort methods or creating new languages. UPDATE: I suppose it could be argued that creating new languages is not computer science, either. I reckon it depends on the language itself.