Programming started as a field very similar to Accounting. You manually assembled a list of operations to get the necessary numerical result. There was creativi

Programming started as a field very similar to Accounting. You manually assembled a list of operations to get the necessary numerical result. There was creativity, but in the same vein of creativity in accounting it was confined to the realm of statistics and business intelligence. Computers were used to calculate numbers from other numbers, and rarely did much else. The set of computer instructions were limited, and nothing was automated so there was a lot of tedium in physically writing programming out on paper. With the advent of personal computers and monitors the fields diverged rapidly.