> Shocking in his case as he was a true programmer (computer scientist). How was that shocking? Someone has to be the first to introduce or pioneer a distinct

> Shocking in his case as he was a true programmer (computer scientist). How was that shocking? Someone has to be the first to introduce or pioneer a distinct profession to the rest of the world, he was pretty much among that select group. It's like saying you're a 3d printer in the past few years, without anyone having a clue this was an actual profession people spent their days on. And that's today, in a world where we're more educated and more open to the notion of rapidly changing professions. If you want to know, the people who work those desks at the municipality usually have only a high school degree, the mandatory minimum (not for the job, but as a person raised in the Netherlands). And in the 1950s that minimum was only six years of education, i.e. primary school only. None of this strikes me as shocking in this full context, unless you're shocked by the notion there had to be someone to pioneer a profession for the first time in their municipality and we happen to be talking about him and his anecdote.