Or it could go the way of math, hated but all but the very most talented at it and generally considered boring. This has very real effects on the discipline, i

Or it could go the way of math, hated but all but the very most talented at it and generally considered boring. This has very real effects on the discipline, including a more exaggerated gender problem that CS has already inherited, and a number of extremely intelligent people are conditioned to never really give it a chance.