It feels like some people do programming for the sake of programming (like linguists). Others create poems and exquisite novels with it (authors). I’d argue you

It feels like some people do programming for the sake of programming (like linguists). Others create poems and exquisite novels with it (authors). I’d argue you don’t need to be a linguist to be a nobel (or pulitzer) prize winning author. Why? It’d be a distraction. You’d start focusing on the wrong kinds of things. Linguists are still highly respectible people. Society needs them. Just that being a great author does not require you to be one.